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NetBIOS is an acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. It provides services related to the session layer of the OSI model allowing applications on separate computers to communicate over a local area network. As strictly an API, NetBIOS is not a networking protocol.

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[System.Net.Dns]::GetHostEntry("ip") returns host entry of another server

Today I've recognized strange behaviour of our DNS-System, if I make a DNS reverse lookup for the server srvdefiler1 with System.net.dns.gethostentry("10.10.1.54") (done within powershell if it matters, .Net 4.5) it returns following…
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Command line disable netbios?

I have an ethernet adapter and a wireless adapter and can't for the life of me figure out the command line (or powershell) used to disable Netbios over TCP/IP for all the adapters on a system. I would appreciate any input on this.
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List device's names in the local network

I'm able to fetch connected devices IP and their MAC address and also would like to fetch the device's names and services(open ports). Can somebody please help me with this?
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What would cause pysmb to fail when OSX Finder “Connect to Server…” succeeds?

(originally asked on StackOverflow, but I think there are more appropriate experts here): I'm trying to transfer a file from a remote samba share (on a windows server) in a python script (running on OSX 10.10). I am able to mount the share using…
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Python and Netbios

I have been toying with a few ideas and would like to use Netbios to do some checks on the network. So after some research decided pysmb's nmb.Netbios was a good place to start. I have constructed a simple queryName function that I was hoping would…
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How host name is broadcasted in a subnet

I'm working with Microchip's TCP/IP stack and the host name of my device is not being broadcasted, although I can access it using its DHCP assigned IP. So the question is, what is the protocol that a network device uses to broadcast its host name,…
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Resolving minwinpc.local on SoftAP

When I connect to the Windows IoT board normally, accessing "minwinpc.local:8080" to get to the IoT device portal works fine in the same network. However, when the same is done through the built-in SoftAP (using WiFiDirectAdvertisementPublisher),…
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How to get full host name

Enviroment.MachineName returns short name: public static string GetCurrentMachineName() { return GetMachineName(Environment.MachineName); //returns hostname } I have short hostname: shortName and fullname: shortName.company.local. So, when i…
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Unreadable encoding of a SMB/Browser packet in Scapy

I'm trying to parse a pcap file with scapy (in python), and getting raw data at the layer above TCP. on wireshark, all the layers are shown correctly: but on scapy all i'm seeing is just a Raw layer... i'm thinking maybe it didn't parsed the…
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NetBIOS Name Regular Expression

I have a question according to this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188997 ( A computer name can be up to 15 alphanumeric characters with no blank spaces. The name must be unique on the network and can contain the following special…
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encode Netbios name python

I would like to encode "ITSATEST" to it's netbios name value in python; The occurence table and explication are here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194203 I dont know how this could be done easily in python, someone can give me a hand ? Thanks !
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Does Windows interfere with Java's Socket.setSOTimeout?

I am reading here, that On connect, the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) tries to resolve the hostname to IP/port. Windows tries a netbios ns query on UDP (User Datagram Protocol) port 137 with a timeout of 1.5 seconds, ignores any ICMP (Internet…
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Do I *really* need RPC and NETBIOS to use transactional NServiceBus queues between local servers and Amazon EC2?

We have been trying - without success - to get transactional message queues working between local servers and our cloud servers up in Amazon EC2. We're using NServiceBus, and have got the pub/sub examples and various other trivial apps working…
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linux C server - identifying / naming the client

By hostname, I mean the name of the PC of the client. I'm trying to identify each of the connected client of the server. Like client -> server. Server says: client hostname has connected. then all the process by that client will be tagged with the…
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Ip address to NetBIOS/FQDN name in Java/Android

given the ip address of a computer on the same network of my Android device, i have to find its NetBIOS/FQDN name ... is there any "clean" solution to accomplish this with the Android SDK and generally speaking in java ? Obviously…
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