Posts Tagged ‘NetBIOS’

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Feb23

Mapped Network Drive : FQDN vs. NetBIOS (Who’s Better, Who’s Best)

by Cory Curtis on February 23rd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Posted In: Techno Noogies, Network, Techno Noogies, OS, Techno Noogies, Software, Techno Noogies, Techno Noogies, OS, Windows

I came across another one of those shake your head in disbelief problems. There are actually some programs out there that won’t work with mapped drives that are mapped using the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name). I don’t know how it is that it matters but the program gets errors and won’t run unless the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep10

Netbios Network Settings – A short how to.

by Cory Curtis on September 10th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Posted In: Techno Noogies, Network, Techno Noogies, OS, Techno Noogies, Techno Noogies, OS, Windows

So you want to map a network drive to one of your computers by name without a DNS server. How is it done? Fully Qualified Domain Name or FQDN uses a prefix or machine name, a domain name, and a suffix of .com, .net, .org, .loc(non-public), an so on. NetBIOS uses only a machine name. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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