Re: How do i share files / printers without netbios

Thanks for replying doug. Would disabling netbios have any great impact on
our network traffic or are its results negligable.
I have also found out that out dns server is incorrectly setup. It appears
to be setup to resolve all domains ending in .co.uk This of course means that
it will never query the internet to resolve .co.uk domain names
I suspect that because of this the primary and secondary dns are configured
as 84.x.x.x instead of our internal server at 192.x.x.x. This is probably
slowing our network down far more than the netbios issue.
I have read plenty of articles of how to setup dns from stratch, but not
entirely sure how to repair damaged dns.
If anybody could tell me how to change the domain name resolution and then
reconfigure the primary and secondary dns address i would be greatfull.

"Doug Sherman [MVP]" wrote:

> If you disable NetBIOS, you may be unhappy with the result because a
> surprising number of applications/functions depend on it. Nevertheless, you
> can share files and printers without it - \\IPaddressofServer\sharename.
> If you have an alternative local name resolution mechanism such as DNS or
> lmhosts files, you can use \\ServerName\sharename. You cannot browse
> without NetBIOS.
>
> Doug Sherman
> MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>
> "Andy Dowell" <AndyDowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C66C4B40-BD86-47F6-8198-344AA397ACD2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Kinda new to all this so please make allowances.
> > We have recently upgraded all our workstations to run either 2000 or xp
> pro.
> > I understand how to disable netbios but not how to share files. I read
> some
> > article about setting them up in active domain but it went slightly over
> my
> > head.
> > If some body could explain it in idiot language i would be very thankfull.
>
>
>
.

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