Re: Netbios / Net Send command

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From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:10:45 -0600

"Per Hagstrom" <per.hagstrom@swic.eduNOSPAM> wrote in message
news:#dPL3PgDFHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hey!
>
> I have a Tomcat web server running on Win2000. This web server gets really
> over loaded while NetBIOS is turned on. If I turn NetBIOS off, it is just
> fine.

Doubtful it is merely due to the NetBIOS (but likely due
to something else related to that.)

> I guess it tries to keep up with the logs, resolving the NetBIOS names
> for all the traffic it logs.

That might explain it -- so it is really the logs not the NetBIOS
per se.

> How ever, if I turn NetBIOS off, the Net Send command won't work anymore?

The messenger service IS A NetBIOS service.

> Is
> there a way around that without having to turn on NetBIOS again?

Not for the specific Messenger service.

> (SQL Server can't send a Net Send alert anymore even though I try to send
> through an IP instead of NetBIOS name...) 

-- 
Herb Martin
>
> Thanks!
>
>  / Per
>
>
>
>

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