What they may be getting at is that you are supposed to educate your users
not to use network neighborhood.. You can map a drive to all of the network
locations they would normally browse to. Every time they open network
neighborhood the netbios broadcasts go flying searching for other netbios
"windoze" machines.
Cory
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From: Scott Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 7:30 PM
To: Cisco -L post
Subject: Re: netbios, whats it good for?
Hah! But you can't remove Netbios. It's a Windoze feature. <g>
Scott
> You know that handy-dandy feature in Windows called Network Neighborhood?
> Remove NetBIOS and you won't see any other workstations on the network.
>
> T. Miller
> "beth shriver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> I was recently reading through one of laura chappels
>> pod books that suggested netbios was not a good thing
>> to have too much on the network. I just recently took
>> a look at my network and i see a TON of it flying
>> around! capturenet shows:tcp->NETBIOS-SSN
>> can you tell me what this netbios would be good for
>> and if nothing how do i get rid of it?
>> thanks
>> Beth
>>
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