Subj : Network bindings questions
To   : All
From : Randall Parker
Date : Mon Mar 26 2001 12:41 am

From: Randall Parker <rgparker@west.net>

I'm trying to make sense of the Control Panel|Network|Bindings page on NT4.

When I choose "Show Bindings for all services" I get 4 entries:
   NetBIOS Interface
   Remote Access Server Service
   Server
   Workstation

Server vs Workstation? What is that about?

Are there then 4 services as listed above on this computer? What's their idea 
of what a service is?

Opening the tree anone layer lower I see for each of the above top entries the 
following subentries:
    WINS Client(TCP/IP)
    NetBEUI Protocol

I don't understand the logical layering here. Can each service use or not use 
WINS Client?

When I go to the "all adapters" view then the 4 services entries only show up 
under "NetBEUI Protocol" and under "WINS Client(TCP/IP)".  They don't show up 
under TCP/IP Protocol.

So I'm confused, you can optionally route NetBEUI/NetBIOS packets over TCP/IP, 
right? I can't remember the difference between NetBIOS and NetBEUI. Anyone 
know?

Also, under the "all adapters" view I get two separate identically named 
entries called "Remote Access WAN Wrapper". Why two of them? The first one just 
contains "Remote Access WAN Wrapper". Whereas the second one contains
   Remote Access WAN Wrapper
   TCP/IP Protocol
   WINS Client(TCP/IP)

The most important question: In order to secure this computer more thoroughly 
for the adapter that is the NIC to the DSL Modem (ie to the wild wooly 
internet) should I disable all "NetBEUI Protocol" and "WINS Client(TCP/IP)" 
entries?

What is WINS Client anyhow?

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