Information Technology Reference
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Caution
Be sure to test all of your mission-critical applications and production Windows services before
disabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP on a Windows Server 2003 computer. Even modern applications like Microsoft
Exchange Server (up to Exchange 2003) can still require NetBIOS name resolution in certain situations.
Using the Registry
Like some of the DNS recipes we've seen in this chapter, configuring interface-specific NetBIOS
settings requires you to find the GUID of the NIC that you want to configure. In this case, the
path has
Tcpip_
prepended to the GUID, so a sample Registry path might look like this:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\
Parameters\Interfaces\Tcpip_{91271921-ECEA-4185-A19C-A6343E941BDA}\]
Using VBScript
The
SetTCPIPNetBIOS()
method in the
Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration
WMI class is new
to the Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP operating systems. The three numeric values that
you can input into this method correspond to the three radio buttons in the GUI:
0
: Use the DHCP value or the default settings
1
: Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP
2
: Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP
See Also
Microsoft TechNet: “Microsoft Windows Server 2003 TCP/IP Implementation Details”
(
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/
networking/tcpip03.mspx
)
Chapter 2 for more on Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
Recipe 1-13 for configuring WINS for DNS name resolution
Recipe 1-15 for configuring a NetBIOS scope ID and enabling Lmhosts lookups
Microsoft KB 323357: “How To Configure TCP/IP Networking While NetBIOS Is Turned
Off on a Server Running Windows Server 2003”
1-15. Configuring NetBIOS Options
Problem
You want to configure NetBIOS options on your Windows Server 2003 computer. These options
include using DNS as a secondary method of NetBIOS name resolution, configuring a NetBIOS
scope ID, and configuring the use of an Lmhosts file.
