No more NetBIOS in Longhorn... question

[Kristi2k]

If NetBIOS is taken out, how will netadmins and support connect to other computers on their LAN? Such as \\servername or \\clientname ?

 

[n0cmonkey]

TCP/IP.

 

[randal]

Normally SMB rides on NetBIOS, but from win2k on, SMB can run directly on TCP/IP -- that's why you can disable netbios on win2k+ and have your network still work. Additionally, CIFS (successor to SMB) is rumored to completely replace SMB/netbios in longhorn (not sure on this).

A LOT of domain admins out there turn of NetBIOS by default because it sucks ... SMB over TCP/IP is a lot better and uses only port 445.

 

[ava7ar]

Sorry for the dumb question..but what's SMB?

 

[networkman]

What is SMB, NetBIOS, etc?

Google searches... use them.

 

[Nothinman]

Sorry for the dumb question..but what's SMB?

Server Message Block, the shitacular protocol that Windows uses for file/print sharing and remote RPC.

 

[randal]

shitacular, LOL. I'm going to have to remember that

 

[MiniDoom]

DNS \\computer.domain.local or \\ipaddress.

 

[deftech]

You can also run WINS which converts IP's to names and vice versa.

You can also get to shares via IP without names such as \\10.0.0.1\sharename.

 

[Kristi2k]

Ah, I forgot all about SMB... doh. Yea, right, \\IP\share, no way, we have ~100 servers and around 3500 client machines.