NetBIOS: Revision history

23 October 2025

• curprev 18:0318:03, 23 October 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 25,222 bytes −29 →Protocol stack: NetBIOS isn't a protocol. undo
• curprev 17:5817:58, 23 October 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 25,251 bytes 0 →History and terminology: Clean up spacing. undo
• curprev 17:5717:57, 23 October 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 25,251 bytes +7 →History and terminology: NetBIOS isn't a protocol, so it's not encapsulated. NBT is a set of protocols, running atop TCP and UDP, that provide NetBIOS services. undo
• curprev 17:3817:38, 23 October 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 25,244 bytes −16 NetBIOS#NetBEUI gives some information on NBF.. undo
• curprev 17:3617:36, 23 October 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 25,260 bytes −37 "NetBIOS Frames" now just redirects here. undo
• curprev 17:2517:25, 23 October 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 25,297 bytes +188 →History and terminology: Copy over some information from the old NetBIOS Frames page. undo
• curprev 17:1817:18, 23 October 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 25,109 bytes −29 →History and terminology: We've already described NetBEUI in the previous sentence; just mention it by the short name. undo
• curprev 17:1717:17, 23 October 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 25,138 bytes −2 →History and terminology: NBF no longer has a page; NetBIOS Frames just redirects here. Spell it out and give the abbreviation in parentheses (this is also done in the lead, but this is just in case somebody missed it). undo
• curprev 17:1417:14, 23 October 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 25,140 bytes −4 →History and terminology: One link per paragraph suffices. undo
• curprev 16:2016:20, 23 October 2025 FaviFake talk contribs 25,144 bytes −92 Removing merge template after merging (easy-merge) undo
• curprev 16:2016:20, 23 October 2025 FaviFake talk contribs 25,236 bytes +2,959 merged content from NetBIOS Frames following a merge proposal. For the full discussion which led to the merge, please see the articles' talk pages. Please see the source page's history for attribution. I didn't add additional content (just reorganised it), but the target section may need to be cleaned up. undo Tag: Visual edit

23 August 2025

• curprev 21:5621:56, 23 August 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 22,277 bytes +29 Undid revision 1307477647 by 2601:3CB:700:EAE0:E9EF:4F4D:5A1A:DAC8 (talk) - rv damage undo Tag: Undo
• curprev 21:4321:43, 23 August 2025 2601:3cb:700:eae0:e9ef:4f4d:5a1a:dac8 talk 22,248 bytes −29 →Services undo Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit

29 July 2025

• curprev 14:2214:22, 29 July 2025 Kvng talk contribs 22,277 bytes +92 merge proposal undo

1 July 2025

• curprev 23:2923:29, 1 July 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 22,185 bytes +564 →History and terminology: Add a bunch of references from J. Scott Haugdahl's "Inside NETBIOS". undo
• curprev 23:0323:03, 1 July 2025 Guy Harris talk contribs 21,621 bytes −180 →History and terminology: NBF runs atop 802.2, regardless of the layer atop which 802.2 runs - 802.3, 802.5, FDDI, whatever. I don't see anything about Token Ring and Ethernet formats being different, or that being the controversy; the only issue I see is Microsoft calling their NBF implementation "NetBEUI". IBM may have added their "Extended User Interface", which used NBF, for Token Ring, but it'd work fine over Ethernet as well. Leave the {{cn}} there, as all that history needs citations undo

4 September 2024

• curprev 12:2612:26, 4 September 2024 217.145.83.141 talk 21,801 bytes +17 correcting unclear wording undo Tag: Visual edit
• curprev 11:5911:59, 4 September 2024 217.145.83.141 talk 21,784 bytes +1,361 Adding information about early Microsoft NetBIOS implementations undo Tag: Visual edit

14 June 2024

• curprev 20:3120:31, 14 June 2024 Dujo talk contribs 20,423 bytes +42 →External links: Dead link use archive undo
• curprev 20:2920:29, 14 June 2024 Dujo talk contribs 20,381 bytes +32 →External links: Dead link use archive undo
• curprev 20:2520:25, 14 June 2024 Dujo talk contribs 20,349 bytes +27 →External links: Improve reference undo

9 June 2024

• curprev 08:5908:59, 9 June 2024 Dujo talk contribs 20,322 bytes −229 Remove dubious affirmation without reference. undo
• curprev 08:5608:56, 9 June 2024 Dujo talk contribs 20,551 bytes −142 NetBIOS is not a protocol. undo

31 May 2024

• curprev 14:3114:31, 31 May 2024 Skarz talk contribs 20,693 bytes +810 Rescuing 4 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5 undo Tag: IABotManagementConsole [1.3]

5 August 2023

• curprev 04:2204:22, 5 August 2023 Black Walnut talk contribs m 19,883 bytes −2 →History and terminology: ce: syntax: "new...new design" -> "new...hardware" undo

27 July 2023

• curprev 04:0604:06, 27 July 2023 104.174.204.3 talk 19,885 bytes −10 →History and terminology: fixed own mistake undo
• curprev 04:0404:04, 27 July 2023 104.174.204.3 talk 19,895 bytes +221 →History and terminology: Removed "is a non-routable OSI Session Layer 5 Protocol and a service that" from very beginning of section because NetBIOS is an API, not a network protocol (the network protocols are called NBT, NBF, and NBX -- and sometimes erroneously NetBEUI); also a few small grammar/sentence location changes to this section to further clarify technical nature of NetBIOS' API vs. on-the-wire protocol elements undo

26 July 2023

• curprev 18:1918:19, 26 July 2023 104.174.204.3 talk 19,674 bytes +183 →External links undo

21 June 2023

• curprev 18:4818:48, 21 June 2023 PaulT2022 talk contribs 19,491 bytes +8 Undid revision 1161043821 by Ccnnuu (talk) undo Tag: Undo

20 June 2023

• curprev 07:5807:58, 20 June 2023 Ccnnuu talk contribs 19,483 bytes −8 →top undo Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor

17 June 2023

• curprev 12:3312:33, 17 June 2023 PaulT2022 talk contribs 19,491 bytes +494 →Name service: unclear what Microsoft has do to with it; if there's a non-Microsoft protocol variation with IPv6 support, it should be said directly undo
• curprev 10:0610:06, 17 June 2023 PaulT2022 talk contribs 18,997 bytes +201 →History and terminology: citation needed undo
• curprev 09:4009:40, 17 June 2023 PaulT2022 talk contribs 18,796 bytes +23 missing qualifier; update archive.org link undo

16 June 2023

• curprev 22:0322:03, 16 June 2023 PaulT2022 talk contribs 18,773 bytes +110 →Name service: Unclear from text what is meant by "octets". Possibly confuses octets with bytes. (RFC 1001: "NetBIOS names as seen across the client interface to NetBIOS are exactly 16 bytes long.") undo
• curprev 22:0022:00, 16 June 2023 PaulT2022 talk contribs 18,663 bytes +84 →top: Contradicts the article and RFC 1001 undo

28 May 2023

• curprev 21:1921:19, 28 May 2023 Cooper2222 talk contribs m 18,579 bytes +32 →Protocol stack undo
• curprev 20:5320:53, 28 May 2023 Cooper2222 talk contribs 18,547 bytes +1,703 No edit summary undo Tag: Visual edit: Switched

12 May 2023

• curprev 22:2022:20, 12 May 2023 2001:569:5843:1500:24ab:5197:8c97:96dc talk 16,844 bytes +1 *minor* Fixing whitespacing. undo
• curprev 22:1922:19, 12 May 2023 2001:569:5843:1500:24ab:5197:8c97:96dc talk 16,843 bytes −86 Clarifying what generation of operations systems/types. Simplification of statement about use to be more concise and accurate. undo

20 April 2023

• curprev 12:1012:10, 20 April 2023 Settcand talk contribs m 16,929 bytes +389 O'Reilly, chapter sources undo Tag: Visual edit

18 December 2022

• curprev 03:0403:04, 18 December 2022 Pngdeity talk contribs 16,540 bytes −6 No edit summary undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

4 August 2022

• curprev 23:2323:23, 4 August 2022 Bumm13 talk contribs m 16,546 bytes −34 formatting fix undo
• curprev 23:2223:22, 4 August 2022 Bumm13 talk contribs m 16,580 bytes −34 →History and terminology: formatting fix undo
• curprev 23:2223:22, 4 August 2022 Bumm13 talk contribs m 16,614 bytes 0 →History and terminology: capitalization fixes undo
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22 June 2022

• curprev 14:3214:32, 22 June 2022 Cvsec talk contribs m 16,627 bytes 0 →Services: Remove uses of the term "packet" where "message" is meant undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

27 April 2022

• curprev 20:2520:25, 27 April 2022 Gromolyak talk contribs 16,627 bytes −1 →top undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit

22 April 2022

• curprev 18:5718:57, 22 April 2022 Kvng talk contribs m 16,628 bytes 0 avoid unnec redirect undo

2 February 2022

• curprev 07:0507:05, 2 February 2022 Falcon Kirtaran talk contribs 16,628 bytes +8 clarify pc-network undo Tag: Visual edit
• curprev 07:0207:02, 2 February 2022 Falcon Kirtaran talk contribs 16,620 bytes +4 →History and terminology: link undo Tag: Visual edit