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| Description: | Net BIOS stands for Network Basic Input Output System. Originally defined along with a simple network protocol, nowadays called NetBEUI, NetBIOS must now be considered as a session programming interface for applications. There is no authentification in NetBIOS. NetBIOS provides several services: - name registration and look-up (see NetBIOS name) - sessions (connection-oriented) - datagram service (connectionless) NetBEUI is not a routable protocol, which makes it inappropriate on internetworks. NetBIOS over TCP/IP, called NBT by Microsoft, can accommodate various network configurations, including routers. The main applications of NetBIOS are resource sharing (files, printers), and access to communication gateways. NetBIOS over TCP/IP is described in RFC 1001 at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1001.txt and RFC 1002 at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1002.txt. |