Task 1: Assign the NetBIOS Name
The NetBIOS naming activity does not lend itself to a list of specific options. However, there are considerations that need to be addressed when designing the namespace.
NetBIOS names are the names that users most often see when prompted for a domain name in Windows. Each domain requires a NetBIOS name to be assigned. The NetBIOS name must be unique on the network or name resolution conflicts will result.
The same NetBIOS name can be used in different corporations to represent the same entity; for example, the NetBIOS name CORP is often used as the name for the internal corporate network. In this case, if two companies merge and both have used the NetBIOS name CORP, there will be a conflict when the two networks ...
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