Questions tagged [netbios]
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How can I redirect netbios requests?
I've got a fileserver which we've had to decommision... Lets call it FILE-OLD.
It's been replaced by a shiny new fileserver, lets call that one FILE-NEW.
FILE-NEW has the same IP as FILE-OLD used to have, and pinging FILE-OLD gets a reply due to a…
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Why do I see a lot of incoming netbios activity on my Windows Firewall?
I have been seeing a lot of firewall drops on port 137 and 138 (netbios) after I enabled default behavior on my Windows FW (Block incoming, Allow outgoing) What is the reason for all netbios activity addressed to me? Can someone explain the…
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Weird RNP samba devices in Workgroup
in the Network folder of all Windows computers and in the output of smbtree command I see a lot of devices with strange names (legitimate names obfuscated with #).
WORKGROUP
\\WEBSERVER
\\RNPA82FE9
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Horrible Windows Server 2003 performance while copying files through Netbios
We have a Windows Server 2003 based server sharing a folder through a gigabit interface that receives a 10gb file every hour from another server. This server is a Dell PowerEdge 830 with two SCSI disks on RAID-1 with a PERC4/SC adapter. The transfer…
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Windows 7 - VPN and host name lookup
I have set up a VPN server using a Sinology box for accessing my office network from home.
I can access all the office IPs, but the host name resolution has some problems. DNS queries work : nslookup commands are successful. However, if I enter an…
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Strange NetBIOS query with old computer name
I've one computer in our network which I first named PC029. Shortly after I changed its name to PC021. This was more than a year ago. Today I've found (thanks to Wireshark) that this computer is flooding the network with NetBIOS and LLMNR queries…
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When should I use an LMHOST file?
I'm doing research on the LMHOSTS file. Can anyone tell me when I would want to use the LMHOST file?
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Netbios binding in server 2008
I am creating a middle ground server as a funnel point for our regular network to talk to our legacy network, which is running Lantastic 8.0/8.1 on MS Dos 6.1.
To do so, I need to install Netbios, but I have two NIC's installed, and I need to bind…
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How to set up netbios aliases on smbd / nmbd
The hostname of my server is slightly unfriendly (let's say b4dn4me). I want my users to be able to access the server under a nicer name (let's say bonnie).
Samba is installed just to be able to respond to windows netbios name queries (just need…
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Server with static IP is not showing up in Computer Browser?
We have two servers on a Windows network. One is both the primary domain controller, as well as the DHCP and DNS server. The other one is just a file and database server. Both machines use static IPs. From any of the workstations, if I go to My…
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Is it possible to enumerate Windows users remotely?
I have a couple of shared folders which are accesible by an account which has no password (long story). But the username is very long and difficult.
Is this (relatively) safe and secure, or is it possible for remote machines in the LAN to query the…
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how can I clear stale workgroups from windows machine?
I have a list of netbios workgroups that I can see with "net view" on Windows 7. One of these workgroups is there due to a typo error on another machine, that has since been corrected. I want to remove this stale entry.
I have tried:
nbtstat…
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Does "User name may not be same as computer name" apply to active directory user names
I was going through this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310845
If you try to create a user account on a computer and try to use the
computer name for the user account name, you receive the following
error message:
The user name may…
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Why does samba with netbios aliases only load one of the configurations?
I'm running an OpenSuSE 11.3 box with samba v3.5.4. I've set up my smb.conf as follows:
[global]
netbios aliases = jean-pc2 storage
include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.%L
Then I have two other config files, smb.conf.jean-pc2 and…
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VPN worked with Vista client, but breaks with Win7 client
I have a VPN with WinServer2003 on the host side and Vista (x64) as the client.
The Vista client (192.168.0.nnn) connects daily to the VPN to backup all the machines on the host side (10.1.nnn.nnn). This has been working fine for about 3 years.
I'm…
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