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NetBIOS

NetBIOS (/ˈnɛtbaɪɒs/), or Network Basic Input/Output System, is an API that provides services related to the session layer of the OSI model, allowing applications on separate computers to communicate over a local area network. NetBIOS is not a networking protocol; NetBIOS API requests and responses can be transported over several protocols.

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Services

NetBIOS name vs Internet hostname

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NetBIOS

Nodes82
Edges81
Triples161
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02439
Components1

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NetBIOS

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related to External links · 27
NetBIOS → Archived, CIFS NetworkingOpen Systems Interconnection, Coder Bliss, December, January, Jon Reedholm, Just, LAN Technical Reference, Microsoft Knowledge Base, NBF, NBT, NBXLMHOSTS FileNETBIOS End Characters, NetBEUI, NetBIOS APIsImplementing CIFS, NetBIOS Library, NetBIOS Suffixes, October, Open Publication License, OSI, Reference Model
related to history · 24
NetBIOS → API, IBM, IBM PC Network LAN, IBM's, IEEE, In, LAN, Logical Link Control, NBF, NetBEUI, NetBEUI API, NetBIOS API, NetBIOS Extended User Interface, NetBIOS Frames, NetBIOS-aware, NetBIOS/NetBEUI, On IBM PC Network, PC-Network, Sytek, Sytek Inc
related to Further reading · 23
NetBIOS → Abraham, Architecture Technology Corp, Dean, Ed, Gagne, Galvin, Greg, Guide, Haugdahl, Inside NetBIOS, ISBN, John Wiley, Managing, McGraw-Hill, Michael, NetBEUI, Network, Networks, Operating System Concepts, Peter Baer
related to Internet hostname · 18
NetBIOS → Advanced Properties, Control Panel, DNS, Domain Name System, Generally, Hostnames, Internet, IP, It, Network, Originally, Primary DNS Suffix, System Properties, TCP/IP, TCP/IP-based, There, To, Windows
related to Node types · 15
NetBIOS → B-node, BroadcastP-node, H-node, Hybrid, IP, M-node, Mixed, NBT, Peer, TCP/IP, There, This, Under Windows, Windows OS, WINS
related to NetBIOS name · 14
NetBIOS → ASCII, DNS, In, IP, Microsoft, NetBIOS Name Server, NetBIOS Suffix, Since Windows, TCP/IP, The, This, Today, Windows, WINS Server
related to Name service · 7
NetBIOS → Frequently, In, In NBT, NetBIOS Suffix, TCP, The, UDP
related to Services · 6
NetBIOS → Datagram, Name, NetBIOS-DGM, NetBIOS-NS, NetBIOS-SSN, Session
related to Datagram distribution service · 4
NetBIOS → Datagram, In NBT, The, UDP
related to NetBIOS suffixes · 4
NetBIOS → For, NetBIOS End Character, The, The NetBIOS Suffix

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name windows tcp protocol api session network service computer ip nbt used microsoft services also datagram names applications networks nbf

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
telnetinstance ofHostnames are used by applications0.80text
ftpinstance ofHostnames are used by applications0.80text
web browsersinstance ofHostnames are used by applications0.80text
etcinstance ofHostnames are used by applications0.80text
NetBIOSrelated to Datagram distribution serviceDatagram0.60section
NetBIOSrelated to Datagram distribution serviceIn NBT0.60section
NetBIOSrelated to Datagram distribution serviceUDP0.60section
NetBIOSrelated to Datagram distribution serviceThe0.60section
NetBIOSrelated to External linksLAN Technical Reference0.60section
NetBIOSrelated to External linksNetBIOS APIsImplementing CIFS0.60section
NetBIOSrelated to External linksSamba0.60section
NetBIOSrelated to External linksOpen Publication License0.60section

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