AD and netbios

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I have heard a rumor that if you shut off netbios on your network that
Active Directory will fail because AD is dependant on netbios. I don't
believe this and I cannot find it documented anywhere. Can anyone please
advise? And could you tell me any good reasons to keep netbios on your
network?
 
AFAIK, NETBIOS over TCP/IP is still a pretty important part of Windows-based
networking.

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M Barnes said:
I have heard a rumor that if you shut off netbios on your network that
Active Directory will fail because AD is dependant on netbios. I don't
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no, no, no!
believe this and I cannot find it documented anywhere. Can anyone please
advise? And could you tell me any good reasons to keep netbios on your
network?
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it depends on domain clients and applications.
 
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