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What are the functions of NET-BIOS?

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Question added by Asif Hussain , System Administrator , University of Gujrat
Date Posted: 2016/07/15
Shams  Tabrez
by Shams Tabrez , IT Administrator , Zenises Dmcc

Netbios allows applications to talk to each other using protocols like TCP/IP which supports netbios.netbios is a session/transport layer protocol which can be seen as netbeui and netbt . the main functions of NetBIOS are

Starting and stopping sessions

Name registration

Session layer data transfer(reliable)

Datagram data transfer (un reliable)

Protocol driver and network adapter management functions

Mohamad Chabi
by Mohamad Chabi , Sr. Support Engineer , Abu Dhabi Ports (Outsourced from Experts)

NetBIOS is a program that allows applications on different computers to communicate within a local area network (LAN).

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