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 ...

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 ...

as far as I know, to do simple windows shares you need that stupid tcpip netbios helper or whatever. one of the many reasons 90% of the time I say fuck it, windows file share is worthless, I'll just ...