Using the nbtstat Utility

Microsoft Windows uses an interface called Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS), which relates names with workstations and is an upper-layer interface that requires a transport protocol—usually TCP/IP. But IPv6 can be used as well. Deploying the nbtstat utility will achieve these three important things:

• Track NetBIOS over TCP/IP statistics
• Show the details of incoming and outgoing NetBIOS over TCP/IP connections
• Resolve NetBIOS names

Understand that because NetBIOS name resolution is primarily a Windows network utility, the nbtstat command is available only in Windows-based operating systems.

To display a basic description of nbtstat and its associated options, type nbtstat at the command line. Then, use these options to get a display of information about NetBIOS over TCP/IP hosts. Here are some of the tools, or switches, you can use:

–a	–A
–c	–n
–r	–R
–S	–s

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