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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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Windows Safari cannot access sever by NetBIOS/WINS name

Whenever I try to access a NTLM authenticated intranet site, Safari takes forever to process and then comes back with "The sever is unavailable" or if allowed by the site, loads with out authenticating. I can access these same sites with no problems…
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.net 3.5: (ip2hostname) find if a certain ip is used by another computer in domain

I'm working under a domain, and im making an app that changes ip from 1 to 253 until it finds an available, unconfliced ip (where it get's ping response from the domain, it tries to ping it each time it changes ip), this part works. the problem is,…
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system.environment.machinename in java?

Is there a way to get the same thing returned by system.environment.machinename in c# -- but in java? I've tried InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName(); and using the JCIFS open source library.
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Why we use this syntax for NCB in C?

I have a question about NetBios NCB (Network Control Block).I wonder why we can use this syntax, as shown example below, if the structure doesn't have any pointers. UCHAR reset( NCB *block ) { block->ncb_command = NCBRESET; …
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Searching for NetBIOS name HTML input pattern

I want to add a pattern to one of my input tags, which checks, if the given input by the user is a correct NetBIOS name. NetBIOS names can have a maximum amount of 15 characters. It can contains numbers and JUST upper case letters... I've tried to…
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Mixed Windows and *nix environment - 'local' suffix issue

Stupid question - apologies in advance. I have a mixed Windows and Linux dev environment, and the server is Linux (Ubuntu). Let's say the server is called 'myserver'. I develop on both Windows and *nix (Ubuntu and OS X), with references to myserver…
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NetBIOS vs. FQDN

I've got an issue when accessing a web site, I can access it by using the NetBIOS name, but when accessing with the FQDN i get an error. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? (There is no DNS configured yet, we have modified the Hosts file to…
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Distributed Transcations, DTCPING, How to set NetBIOS

I'm the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator to write to two different databases on separate servers that are not on the same network. When I attempt to execute the code inside a C# TransactionScope, I get the following error:…
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UDP broadcast in an iOS app using Adobe Flash

I am writing an iOS app that requires NetBIOS name resolution. It is straightforward to code using the DatagramSocket class in ActionScript. But unfortunately, for a NetBIOS request, the UDP packet needs to be sent out as a broadcast, and…
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Decode Netbios Name Python

I would like to know what would be the best way to do the opposite of this post : encode Netbios name python So to encode, you could use this : encoded_name = ''.join([chr((ord(c)>>4) + ord('A')) + chr((ord(c)&0xF) + ord('A')) for c…
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Python equivalent of Perl Net::NBName to get Windows username?

I'm trying to re-code some Perl script I have to Python (and extend it). With Perl, using the Net library, I can give a hostname and get the Windows username. Here is a snippet of Perl code: my $NetBios = Net::NBName->new; my $nbName =…
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How to make a website accessible by entering a simple name in the URL for the Local Area Network (Intranet)

I have seen certain web applications where we can access by typing a simple name such as "accounts" in the URL field rather than typing a complete domain name "www.xxx.yyy\accounts". I have a local area network containing around 150 computers and…
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Email link to local windows resource with space

How do I encode a link in a plaintext email to a local network resource with a space in it. For instance this will only highlight up to the word "file" but not "file name" \\SERVER\share\file name Yet if I do…
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NetBios stack gets cleared when removing LAN cable on Windows 10

I have an ancient component written in C++ that uses netbios to iterate through network adapters to return their MAC address. All operates fine under windows 7, but since we moved to windows 10 the code fails to retrieve MAC addresses when the LAN…
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windows smb connection, can't fix system error 53

This issue tortures me days and still can't fix it: I have a file share server and I can access it from my windows client. From the client, I am using net use command to connect the file share by using some specific user like: net use y:…
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