The NetBIOS name is 16 ASCII characters, however Microsoft limits the host name to 15 characters and reserves the 16th character as a NetBIOS Suffix. This suffix describes the service or name record type such as host record, master browser record, or domain controller record or other services. The host name (or short host name) is specified when Windows networking is installed / configured, the suffixes registered are determined by the individual services supplied by the host. In order to connect to a computer running TCP / IP via its NetBIOS name, the name must be resolved to a network address. Today this is usually an IP address (the NetBIOS name to IP address resolution is often done by either broadcasts or a WINS Server -- NetBIOS Name Server). A computer 's NetBIOS name is often the same as that computer 's host name (see below), although truncated to 15 characters, but it may also be completely different.
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