Removing NetBios

[Mober]

I am trying to disable NetBios on all my 2003 server and XP computers. When I disable NetBios in the network properties I am unable to find any of my computers/server in the Domain. I have verfied that forward and reverse dns are working, and after looking at enough Wireshark traffic there are alot of Netbios requests going around. How do I tell my computers to use DNS and still find my machines?

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

in your DNS, make sure your client are appending the hostnames with the domain name to b able to see it as a FQDN netbios allows you to user sername instead of servername.domain.com

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[TechyMcSe2k]

Configuring DHCP option for removing Netbios

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313314

If you use DFS without netbios, this is helpful:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244380

Connecting to NetBIOS Resources Using DNS Names or IP Addresses

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/161431

http://www.petri.co.il/disable_netbios_in_w2k_xp_2003.htm

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[Mober]

Sorry I meant to say was after disabling netbios the machine that I disabled netbios on is unable to see other computers in the network using My network places, also none of our copiers can see the same system.

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

Unfortunately, My Network Places utilizes Netbios.

As far as the copiers, (not a confirmed answer) they can be considered legacy devices which also require netbios, unless it has an updated firmware for network DNS support; which most new models do.

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