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 ...
I have a samba 3.0.2 server which I connect to from various windows 2000 and XP machines. Even if I set "disable netbios = yes", my Windows machines have to have netBIOS enabled to connect to the ...