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 ...

Things don’t always go according to plan when using any networking hardware or software, and Windows Home Server (WHS) is no exception. If you run into trouble installing or using WHS or the Windows ...

A security issue has been identified in Microsoft Windows that could allow an attacker to see information in your computer's memory over a network. This vulnerability involves 1 of the NetBIOS over ...

SMB: server message block; a Microsoft file and printer sharing protocol. CIFS: common Internet filesystem; around 1996, Microsoft decided that SMB needed the word Internet in it, so they changed it ...

Had a weird experience with a Win7 client and 2016 DC, the client had drives mapped by FQDN and they suddenly dropped and I could not resolve the domain on the system. Flushdns and verifying the ...