>>Directly opposite to the way I remember: Samba was the Unix implementation of SMB offering the same services through an offering with identical consonants for *x, as SMB had become the de-facto standard on PC hadware.
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>My memory has played weirder tricks on me before, so I wouldn't be surprised if I got it wrong here.
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>> MS had NetBios first defaulting to run over NetBEUI (AFAIR from WfW up to NT4 and W98, W2K I remember running here over TCP/IP but uncertain if I had to set it myself and very uncertain about the DOS drivers), which was ok on networks up to the # of human appendages.
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>W98 had tcp/ip, but by default it would still install NetBEUI unless you fiddled with the connection properties. Also not sure the tcp/ip was packaged by default but not set by default, or it was something to download. I do remember how NBeui became impossible to use when you add fourth or fifth machine, and then everything worked fine and fast when you switch to tcp/ip.
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which is the reason humans had lots of NetBEUI installs, while it was not found in octopi or calamari populations ;-)