NetBIOS
API allowing applications on separate computers to communicate over LAN via the session layer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"NetBEUI" and "NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface" redirect here. For specifically the protocol available in Microsoft Windows, see NetBIOS Frames. For details, see § NetBEUI.
"Network Basic Input/Output System" redirects here. For the Network I/O System, see NIOS (Digital Research).
NetBIOS (/ˈnɛtbaɪɒs/) is an acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. It provides services related to the session layer of the OSI model allowing applications on separate computers to communicate over a local area network. As strictly an API, NetBIOS is not a networking protocol. Operating systems of the 1980s (DOS and Novell Netware primarily) ran NetBIOS over IEEE 802.2 and IPX/SPX using the NetBIOS Frames (NBF) and NetBIOS over IPX/SPX (NBX) protocols, respectively. In modern networks, NetBIOS normally runs over TCP/IP via the NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT) protocol. NetBIOS is also used for identifying system names in TCP/IP (Windows).
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