The computer name for NetBIOS networking. This name can be 16 characters long: The first 15 characters provide the hostname, and the 16th character represents the service registering the name.
NetBIOS name cache
A list of system NetBIOS names that a host has resolved or that have been preloaded from the LMHOSTS file.
NetBIOS node type
The node type that determines the order of name resolution for NetBIOS names. There are four types: B-node, P-node, M-node, and H-node.
NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT or NetBT)
The name given to the process of running NetBIOS network services over TCP/IP.
netsh
An advanced command-line utility that allows you to display and configure network configuration items on a Windows Server 2003 computer.
Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS)
An Application layer networking protocol that works at the Application, Presentation, and Session layers of the OSI model. Legacy Microsoft networking used NetBIOS as the default Application layer protocol.
network ID
The portion of an IP address that identifies the network to which a host is attached.
Network Monitor
A software-based protocol analyzer that is included with Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. The Network Monitor tool can be used to troubleshoot network problems by capturing and analyzing traffic going into and out of a particular computer.
node
A device that communicates on a network and is identified by a unique address. In hierarchies, a node is a container that can house other containers and data.
