[FW1] netbios_nat effect

[Maxi Tracy A Contr AFRL/SNOO <Tracy.Maxi@wpafb.af.mil>]

    [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]


All,

(Please excuse if this ends up being a duplicate post as I originally sent 
this last Wednesday - today is Monday - and it still has not shown up on the 
list?!)

I was perusing the FAQs on phoneboy's site and came across one titled "NT 
Trusts Across a Firewall."  In the answer it states:

        ...
        In Firewall-1 4.1, you can enable NetBIOS over NAT support (which 
will be necessary if using an FWZ-based VPN or any other      situation will 
NAT will be needed) by adding the following to the :props( section of 
objects.C:

                :netbios_nat    (true)
        ...

I did a search in the mailinglist archives, Checkpoint, and on phoneboy but 
found no other information.  Can someone please explain or point me to 
information on what this does?  I would love for it to mean that by putting 
this in objects.C some of the things we have problems with MS products and 
NAT would go away (i.e. being able to manage an Exchange server from a NAT'd 
system or getting new mail notification to a NAT'd client).  (Note the 
Exchange server was recently moved to outside the firewall but it is 
sandwiched by another firewall on the other side of it.)

Thanks in advance,

Tracy A. Maxi
Firewall Administrator
AFRL/SNOO Computer Operations
Compaq Computers
(937) 255-1953 x3536



================================================================================
     To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at
               http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html
================================================================================