NetBIOS, short for Network Basic Input/Output System, is a Windows API used when DNS is not available. It runs over TCP/IP as a fallback method and is not enabled by default. However, Microsoft ...

Apparently, when you disable NetBIOS over TCP, file & printer sharing *should* use direct host SMB to function according to MS.<BR><BR>However, this is not the case with my setup. Once NetBIOS/TCP is ...

Support for the NetBIOS protocol in Windows when running in a TCP/IP network. NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT) supports legacy applications that use the NetBIOS protocol as well as the NetBIOS name server ...

NetBIOS alone should not give you many headaches. Unfortunately, when NetBIOS problems occur they can be difficult to detect. Understanding how NetBIOS works is the key. One of the important steps in ...

I have a slew of W2k and XP Pro machines in a 2k3 domain (plus about 10 XP Home PCs not in the domain). We're having some virus issues so I was thinking about turning off NetBIOS over TCP/IP via ...