From: Gregg N 

"Geo."  wrote in news:40c91eb8$1{at}w3.nls.net:

> It's probably checking to see if the machine is still alive, if not
> then it removes it from the browse list.
>
> If the machine is a domain member, you need netbios over tcp or it
> can't do it's security thing and talk to the domain controller, it can
> however use port 445 instead of 139 I believe but I don't know the
> procedure to set that. I think it involves turning off some of the
> backwards compatibility (eliminating NTLM or something like that).

This article makes it sound like netbios over tcp is only required for pre-
Windows 2000 support:

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/05/11/netbios.html

However, I am still confused by what exactly netbios does and what its
relationship is to SMB, file sharing, and network browsing.

Gregg

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