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Hracio
Hracio
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September 27, 2007
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Netbios Forwarding

  • September 27, 2007
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Situation: Small Company - 3 sites linked via radio links 58Mbps - Fgate device on central site - Vlans - ... and the problem: Obsolete software systems using netbios!. Software systems distributed in their 3 sites. Is it possible to just allow netbios broadcast traffic between involved interfaces.. until " system department" configures a wins server to receive netbios forwarding as it says in " FortiGate_VLANs_and_VDOMs" docs? Regards,. !

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    Anonymous_User
    Contributor
    October 1, 2007
    i can' t say 100% yes but here' s my experience with FGTs and NetBIOS. we have about 18 remote warehouses using Win2K as their gateway and i was unable to route traffic from their LANs to ours. i have to upgrade to Win2K3 to make it work. in summary, Win2K uses NBT while Win2K3 does away with it (including WINS) so basically it uses only TCP/IP.
    abelio
    SuperUser
    abelio
    SuperUser
    October 1, 2007
    Hello Horacio, what about " set netbios-forward enable" CLI command for each interface? (although you' ll need a Wins server accepting those broadcasts)
    Hracio
    HracioAuthor
    New Member
    October 1, 2007
    mmm, I did that only one interface (the one with pcs), i will enable on the server side. Do i still need that wins server? Their " system department" is a bit lazy.. and there are only 20 pcs across three sites, so the broadcast traffic is not an issue. I had to " make a demo about netbios" and why they must migrate their systems... just an extra work.. i see myself configuring wins service...
    abelio
    SuperUser
    abelio
    SuperUser
    October 2, 2007
    Do i still need that wins server?
    yes, those netbios broadcasts go towards the wins server
    Their " system department" is a bit lazy..
    The same says " marketing departament" about us..
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