NETBIOS (NetBIOS Services Protocols)

NETBIOS protocol developed by IBM, the computer is mainly used for dozens of small local area network. The agreement is a program on the LAN can use the application programming interface (API), the program provides low-level service requests unified command set, the role is to provide a local area network and other special functions, the system can use the WINS services, broadcasting and Lmhost documents and other models will NetBIOS name resolution for the corresponding IP address, to achieve information and communication, so in the local area network using the NetBIOS protocol message communication can be easily achieved and resource sharing. Because it takes up less system resources, transmission efficiency is high, so are almost all local area network based on the NetBIOS protocol work.