| To establish network sessions with NetBIOS
you must register yourself a name. You can either register a group
name or unique name. If you register a unique name then your name
must be unique on the entire network. If any other computer is
using the same name the registration will fail. If you register a
group name then it can be the same name as another group name.
Group names are normally used when all the computers have some
relationship.
As a default Citect uses NetBIOS group names when it registers a
local NetBIOS name. We use group names to make the configuration of
Citect simpler. If you register a unique name you must get a unique
name from the customer. So the customer must configure the unique
name correctly or Citect will fail to startup correctly. When we
use a group name we always use the same name "CITECT STATION50" so
the user cannot get it wrong.
The problem with RAS is that it does not support group names
correctly. This is to be expected as group names are not very
compatible with WANs as it is very difficult to manage group names
over a very wide area network. So to make RAS work you must tell
Citect to use unique names by setting the [LAN]GroupName=0
parameter. Citect will use the [LAN]Node name as the NetBIOS
name.
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