NetBIOS is Microsoft’s API (Application Programming Interface) which is allowing older Microsoft’s software to communicate with each other over local area network.  From several sources that I had read from (you can find these sources’ web links right below this blog post), people are rarely using pure NetBIOS these days.  Even when people want to share Windows’ files over local area network, NetBIOS might rarely be used since Microsoft relies on newer protocol which is known as CIFS (Common Internet File System).  So, OK, CIFS’s core protocol SMB (Server Message Block) is designed to work on top of NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP), but nowadays people have ways to implement CIFS without the use of NBT.  One example would be how people have come to…