Adam Todd wrote:

>
>I remember developing from tool kits in 1980's (mid), and people of high
>regard in Australian Technology were laughing at me because I was wasting
>my time developing with IP. "Netbios was the way to go. It works, it's
>there now.  Why reinvent what works?"
>
>As you can see Netbios is now little but a thing of the past.  Don't even
>need it for your Microsoft Network.  Just plain good ol' IP.
>

Mind you, the Microsoft use of IP is just to act as a wrapper for NetBios,
and uses it's own flat naming system called WINS.

Dougal