Disabling NetBIOS over Tcp/Ip

NetBIOS over TCP/IP. . . . . do I need to disable it?? If so, how? Pls take this into consideration: My PC is a stand-alone machine, has no network cards installed and I use dialup for Net access.

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NetBIOS over TCP/IP.....do I need to disable it?? If so, how?
 
Pls take this into consideration:
 
My PC is a stand-alone machine, has no network cards installed and I use dialup for Net access.

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Thanks for your reply. However in the WINS tab of my dialup properties, I see no option for Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP ;( I'm using W2K Pro sp3
 

Quote:.....(and because I am not doing any disks shared here, & I mean ANY shares including $Administrator etc. & other 'implicit' ones.......Sorry for such a basic question, how to find out if I have any shares enabled?

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Agrees with APK ... nicely put
 
And by default you got a couple of shares open, albeit admin shares ....
 
C$, D$, etc (the root of your C D or any other drive)
ADMIN$ (your system root folder)
IPC$ (interprocess communication ....)
 
You get to them from
Right click My Computer, Manage, Shared Folders, Shares

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Quote:1.) NET USE * /D /Y

or

2.) NET SHARE * /D /YApparently the * can't be used - on [2] I get This shared resource does not exist. Have to do it manually :x

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Quote:Now, (edit) by manually, you had to do each share type from up there & they said they were unbound? Curious... what did it for you if so, the NET USE or the NET SHARE commandlines with the /D or /DELETE parameters?
Sorry that wasn't clear. I used NET SHARE * /D and it produced the This shared resource does not exist message. So I have do one by one, like

NET SHARE C$ /D
NET SHARE D$ /D
NET SHARE ADMIN$ /D
....and so on.

Secondly, NET USE didn't work. Here's what happened.

C:\>net use C$ /d
The network connection could not be found.

C:\>


After reading your comprehensive posts , I think I don't have much to worry about, after all IMHO

dialup + stand-alone machine = no worries(almost)

When I start to network machines or get a DSL/cable modem like yours 8) then I will have plenty to worry about. Thanks APK and DS3Circuit again for the advice!!!