This month, Chris takes you through a handy script that discovers and enumerates what networking protocols are installed on a host. Let’s go back to the days when you couldn’t imagine needing more ...

NetBEUI is inherently non-routable and communicates solely by broadcast. There is no direct communication between two machines. Following from that, it has little to no security, as all packets are ...

A local area network (LAN) made up of Windows PCs. NetBEUI was the transport protocol natively supported by all versions of Windows until TCP/IP became the standard in the late 1990s. See NetBIOS and ...

NetBIOS alone should not give you many headaches. Unfortunately, when NetBIOS problems occur they can be difficult to detect. Understanding how NetBIOS works is the key. One of the important steps in ...

I’ve been working as a network administrator for 11 years. I started out with 3rd party tools (Artisoft Lantastic) that we tacked onto Windows 3.1 and DOS. I’ve worked with OS/2, Windows (you name the ...