How necessary is Netbios?

Hello,

Now that we are moving quickly towards a pure Windows 2000 / 2003 / XP environment, I am considering disabling Netbios throughout the WAN. How much does Hyena depend on Netbios? I know that when I turned it off on my workstation, servers stop being identified as such in the tree. I also saw an old post which stated that Exporter depends on the Computer Browser service. Are there workarounds for these issues?

Thanks very much,
- Steve Kadish

[cmccullough]

Re: How necessary is Netbios?

I believe mainly the only thing you would lose would be the Servers folder. This is built by a call to your Windows Browse List, and without Netbios it might not populate. But, you can still manage your servers through OUs, or through the Computers folder, or through a static Object Grouping.

Exporter Pro can accept computer objects from Hyena using the Export Selected Objects option, so it shouldn't be affected either.