Never in the NetBIOS Longhorn . question [netbios] [servername]
Q: If NetBIOS is taken out, how will Netadmin and connect to other computers on their network to support? As server name or client name?
Re:Ah, I forgot all about SMB… doh. Yea, right, \\IP\share, no way, we have ~100 servers and around 3500 client machines.
Re:You can also run WINS which converts IP's to names and vice versa.
You can also get to shares via IP without names such as \\10.0.0.1\sharename.
Re:DNS \\computer.domain.local or \\ipaddress.
Re:shitacular, LOL. I'm going to have to remember that
Re:Sorry for the dumb question..but what's SMB?
Server Message Block, the shitacular protocol that Windows uses for file/print sharing and remote RPC.
Re:What is SMB, NetBIOS, etc? (http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/samba/smb.html)
Google searches… use them. 
Re:Sorry for the dumb question..but what's SMB?
Re:Normally SMB rides on NetBIOS, but from win2k on, SMB can run directly on TCP/IP — that's why you can disable netbios on win2k+ and have your network still work. Additionally, CIFS (successor to SMB) is rumored to completely replace SMB/netbios in longhorn (not sure on this).
A LOT of domain admins out there turn of NetBIOS by default because it sucks … SMB over TCP/IP is a lot better and uses only port 445.
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