04-12-2009
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Re: Name resolution in Vista
I would phrase it a little differently. If you enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP in
VISTA, then the VISTA TCP/IP protocol stack will interact with machines that
are running NetBIOS and as part of that interaction can resolve names. As
far as I know there is no separate NetBIOS protocol available to install in
VISTA.
For VISTA this all comes under the general term 'network discovery'.
Depending on your level of curiosity searching Help and Google for 'Network
Discovery' can probably provide much more information that you actually want
(unless you are trying to develop your own box/protocol to cooperate with
VISTA and make sure that you can be 'discovered').
Michael
"SuperK" <msnews08@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:e7E5o$6uJHA.5672@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Thank you for the clarification, Michael.
>
> So if I understand you correctly:
>
> You don't specifically install NetBios as an additional protocol but by
> enabling NetBios over TCP/IP, you are turning on a type of subset of
> NetBios
> that is part of the TCP/IP protocol?
>
> Is that correct?
>
>
> "Michael Walraven" <mexxwalraven@verizon.not> wrote in message
> news:eFB93j6uJHA.1304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> By default, a Vista machine will use NETBIOS if necessary, it is a part
>> of
>> tcp/ip V4.
>>
>> View the status of your TCP/IP connection
>> Select the properties button
>> Select the Internet Protocol Version 4 item and select properties again.
>> Select the Advanced button
>> Now the WINS tab
>> Look down in NetBios setting area for your current settings.
>>
>> As I understand it, you do not need NETBIOS for XP (SP3), or Vista (SP1)
>> machines, but it does come into play if there is a 98/SE/ME machine
> involved
>> or some older device that does not have newer protocols available.
>>
>> To play around you could force disable NetBIOS and see what happens,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> "SuperK" <msnews08@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:OG5rws5uJHA.5684@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> >
>> > "Frankster" <frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
>> > news:NJednWpIf8TqkX_UnZ2dnUVZ_qydnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>> >>
>> >> "SuperK" <msnews08@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
>> >> news:%23g4b33xuJHA.1504@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> >> > Can anyone tell me exactly what Vista (and XP for that matter) uses
> for
>> >> > name
>> >> > resolution when on a small p2p workgroup?
>> >> > With no domain or server running DNS and no longer able to run
> Netbios
>> > on
>> >> > the pc. With IP installed I can ping by IP address but what exactly
> is
>> >> > allowing me to ping by machine name?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> NetBIOS allows you to ping by machine name.
>> >>
>> >> You can edit the hosts file to achieve name resolution.
>> >>
>> >> -Frank
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > But NetBios is no longer installed, supported in Vista and XP. It
> appears
>> > to
>> > be severely frowned upon by IT people.
>> >
>> > Are you saying install it anyway?
>> >
>> >
>
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