NetBIOS, short for Network Basic Input/Output System, is a Windows API used when DNS is not available. It runs over TCP/IP as a fallback method and is not enabled by default. However, Microsoft ...

Support for the NetBIOS protocol in Windows when running in a TCP/IP network. NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT) supports legacy applications that use the NetBIOS protocol as well as the NetBIOS name server ...

Apparently, when you disable NetBIOS over TCP, file & printer sharing *should* use direct host SMB to function according to MS.<BR><BR>However, this is not the case with my setup. Once NetBIOS/TCP is ...