Re: Dropping Netbios over TCP?

From: Doug Sherman [MVP] (dsherman_at_nospam.tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 10/25/04


Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:46:21 -0400

Try this:

Right click My Network Places and select Properties. Click Advanced and
select Advanced Settings. Move the Local Area Connection for the NIC with
IP address of 192.168.3.1 to the top of the binding order.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Paul Kraemer" <PaulKraemer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C6C72E41-690E-4FA5-AF03-A7AD8A635202@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a Win2k pc with two network cards (NIC's). The first NIC is used
to
> connect me to the Internet through a DSL router. I have it setup to
receive
> it's IP address/DNS info automatically. It receives an IP address in the
> range 192.168.1.x. The automatically assigned default gateway for this
NIC
> is always 192.168.1.1 and the automatically assigned DNS server is always
> 192.168.1.2. My internet connection through this NIC works perfectly.
>
> The second network card is used to connect me to my office LAN. I have
> assigned it a static IP address of 192.168.3.1 (where all of the pc's on
the
> LAN also have static IP addresses in the 192.168.3.x range). I did not
> assign a default gateway or DNS server for this NIC because I want the
other
> NIC to be used for getting on the internet.
>
> Anyway, when I start this pc, I run the following command in a .bat file
to
> map a drive letter (w:) to a share on my 192.168.3.x LAN...
>
> net use w: \\MyServer\MyShare /user:MyServer\netuser password
/persistent:NO
>
> ...MyServer is another PC on my 192.168.3.x LAN. This command works, but
> the log file in my software firewall shows that this command generates
both a
> DNS query to my DNS server (192.168.1.2) and some netbios traffic.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but what I think is happening is
this...My
> 'net use' command causes the pc to try to resolve the name \\MyServer. It
> tries to use DNS, but this can't work because the DNS server (192.168.1.2)
> knows nothing about my 192.168.3.x LAN. This causes it to fall back on
> netbios for name resolution.
>
> If I am correct in my description of what is happening, then my question
is
> this....I thought I read somewhere that netbios name resolution in not
> necessary in a purely Win2k/XP environment (which mine is). Should I be
able
> to do away with it in this situation? Is there anything I can do to allow
> DNS to resolve names on my 192.168.3.x LAN if I still want to be able to
use
> the 192.168.1.x NIC to get on the internet?
>
> Any advice will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
>
> --
> Paul Kraemer

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