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.
Questions tagged [netbios]
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Retrieving correct domain when Netbios and FQDN values are different
I am trying to retrieve the current domain object of the user. I am running into issues when the FQDN domain name is different than the Pre-Windows 2000 domain name (netbios).
String domainName = "????";
Domain d = Domain.GetDomain(new…
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kernel32.dll SetComputerName win32 error 6
I try to change the hostname via kernel32.dll import and the function SetComputerName. SetComputerName function
Mainclass:
namespace Castell
{
class Program
{
private static string hostname { get; set; }
setHostname();
private…
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Why do we still use Netbios aliases?
Why do we use Netbios alias names even when FQDN/DNS exist. Knowing the fact that Netbios is flat naming structure compared to the hierarchial naming way in FQDN and Netbios supports lesser number of nodes in the network compared to FQDN.
Other than…
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Mac client can't resolve Windows Home Server name
I think this is more a Mac networking configuration issue than anything else, but am not sure.
I have Subversion set up on my Windows Home Server machine (similar to this:…
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Netbios name without samba
Is there a way to enable the netbios name in a Linux without using Samba?
What I want is that I would like the hostname (or whatever) to appear when other computers (MS Windows) is scanning the device through ethernet.
This is achieved by netbios.…
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Server in Windows doesn't respond to Websockets connection - NBSTAT <00>
I have a (Spring Boot) server, and a client trying to establish a Websockets connection to the server.
I've run and tested the server on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 20.04), it works fine.
It also ran fine on my Windows (Windows 10 Home) machine up until…
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How NBNS packet is getting captured in Wireshark
Could anyone please tell how NBNS packets are getting generated in Wireshark once we start the live capturing for a particular interface. My objective is to get the hostname of the different machines through PCAP passively. I wanted to know how the…
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How to disable NetBios in C# in SQL Server communication
I have a problem with my connection to SQL Server in a C# application.
After Open(), I see a NetBios request, but the server does not respond and after a few seconds, the connection is closed:
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JCIFS, Android, and getbyname
Well, tried the following bit of code:
import jcifs.netbios.NbtAddress;
...
try{
NbtAddress addr = NbtAddress.getByName("Base");
}catch (UnknownHostException e){}
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And it throws that exception.
Any…
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Zabbix Server do not resolve NetBios name in "DNS Name" when adding host
There is a problem confused me, I searched on Google but no result:
Most of my clients said that they are Windows, We have Microsoft AD. And DHCP, DNS servers are Windows Servers.
As you know non-domain joining windows client do not register on DNS,…
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Netbios name query not working
Recently I have started working on my new python project of mine in which I would like to include something that takes an ip address and converts it to a netbios name,
So by using scapy I tried executing the following piece of code:
sr(Ether() /…
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How to get remote machine OS information from JAVA?
Is there any way available to get the OS information (like OS name, version etc) of a remote machine from a java client. The machine is publicly accessible and also has the internet access. JAVA may not be installed in the remote machine. All the…
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Looking up a short name (non FQDN) from windows hosts file is slow
I am not sure what changed in my network setting in the office but recently when I look up an entry from my windows hosts file (using ping) it resolves the name with a 1-2 second pause ,but if I add the same name as an FQDN it is resolved very…
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Encode and pad netbios name using python
I'm trying to create a simple script that will convert a string (max 15 chars) to a netbios name (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194203) :
name = sys.argv[1].upper()
converted = ''.join([chr((ord(c)>>4) + ord('A'))+chr((ord(c)&0xF) + ord('A'))…
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