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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Cross domain active directory group membership
I have seen a few questions that are like mine, but none that actually apply. The problem I am facing is:
I need to get group membership of User with:
Group in Domain B
User in domain A.
Service in domain B.
Forrest to Forrest 2-way trust.
User…

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How to turn on Networked Computer by using WOL (Wake on Lan) C# or Java
Can u please give me full code to turn on networked computer by WOL option of Network Card and BIOS.
Please provide me all the details and please try to give me working code.

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Get NetBIOS Name on Mac OS X Using VBA or AppleScript
I have a Mac Word VBA application where I need to read the NetBIOS name of the computer the application is running on. I can pickup the User Name and Computer Name with the following code, but I have not been able to figure out how to read the…

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Java webapp how to publish its DNS name in intranet
I have a Tomcat server with a Java Spring webapp installed in a Windows machine. This is an intranet application and I would like to publish in the local network the name of this host, for example using NetBios name.
Is there any way to do this with…

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Get domain controller address by netbios name
I am trying to authenticate a user to an Active Directory in node.js.
By using the npm library "active directory" or "ad" I can do this.
My problem is to get the fully qualified name of the domain controller from the NetBios Name (NT format).
What I…

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Serialize Netbios struct to send over TCP/IP in C, possible?
I have 2 machines talking to each other using NetBIOS via NetBEUI. I am in the process of replacing NETBEUI with TCP. I am looking for the easiest and fastest way to do it. There is NetBios over TCP/IP protocol available but for some reason it's not…

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Translate NT format (NetBIOS) Domain name to Distinguished Name (DNS Domain Name)
I'm currently using the below code to convert NT format (NetBIOS) domain names to Distinguished name (DNS Domain name).
NameTranslate object works great in my code... until I try to use the same code over my work VPN... resulting in an…

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Clear or Disable NetBIOS name caches
I am working with Netbios via C++ code (Windows Netbios API).
I did not find that Netbios API have clear cache function.
In order to clear cache i use the "command line" and run:
nbtstat -R
Is there a way via code to clear netbious cache ?…

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Communication with the underlying transaction manager has failed.MSDTC
I ve two systems one is windows 7 Enterprise in which my application is installed and I've Windows server 2008 R Sp1 machine where database is intsllaed.
Getting below error when accessing database ommunication with the underlying transaction…

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how to get NetBios Name for other ip address from iOS app in Local network
How to get NetBios Name for other ip address from iOS wifi scan sample app in Local network where my device is connected and I am getting all connected device ip address?
Mac-OS i am using this code.
-(NSString *) runCommand: (NSString *)…

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Opening UDP ports in iPad/iPhone firewall
I'm trying to implement NetBIOS discovery on an iOS device, but it seems that the NetBIOS ports (137, 138) are blocked by the iOS. Is there a programmatic way to open a UDP/TCP port in the firewall on an iOS device? Thanks!

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Regex for netbios names
I got this issue figuring out how to build a regexp for verifying a netbios name. According to the ms standard these characters are illegal
\/:*?"<>|
So, thats what I'm trying to detect. My regex is looking like this
^[\\\/:\*\?"\<\>\|]$
But, that…

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Relation Between NetBIOS and Socket API
From SuperUser Answer:
An application that uses the NetBIOS interface API for network communication can be run on any protocol stack that supports a NetBIOS interface.
Can we say that NetBIOS is similar to socket API?
Also what is the relation…

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Cannot read status of NetBIOS
We got a (reproducable) bug in our NetBIOS code in Delphi that (seemed) to work for years.
Used System Windows 7 / 64 bit.
We have a routine that checks if NetBIOS is active or not.
We do this by calling NetBIOS() and reading the return code.
Even…

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In Python on Linux, how do I get socket.gethostbyaddr to return the netbios name of a windows machine
I'm having issues using socket.gethostbyaddr to return netbios names of windows machines. On windows this returns
Python 3.3.3 (v3.3.3:c3896275c0f6, Nov 18 2013, 21:19:30) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or…

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