Active Directory.

Systems that put digital signals from the data communications device on to the cable without modulation; only one data signal can be carried.

basic input/output system.

Systems that have multiple independent frequency channels, usually achieved by Frequency Division Multiplexing.

Systems which maintain lists of Servers and the services they offer.

Common Internet File System - the latest version of SMB

NetBIOS Diagnostic and Monitoring Protocol

A logical grouping of systems within an SMB / CIFS network used for management and authentication. Within Microsoft networks a domain might be an NT 4.0 domain or Windows 2000 domain.

Destination Service Access Point

NetBIOS (and SMB / CIFS) name shared by a number of systems on the network.

Hybrid nodes ("H" nodes") are nodes on a network using NetBIOS over TCP/IP. Hybrid nodes are not defined in RFC 1001 and have not been standardized; these are mixed nodes (similar to "M" nodes) but function broadly in the opposite manner to "M" nodes. "H" nodes function as a "Point to Point" node first and then as a "Broadcast" node.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Internetwork Packet Exchange

International Standards Organization

Media Access Control

NetBIOS Datagram Distribution Server

NetBIOS Frames protocol

NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol

NetBIOS over IPX

NetBIOS Name Server

NetBIOS over TCP/IP (term often seen in Microsoft documentation).

Network Basic Input / Output System

NetBIOS Extended User Interface

NetBIOS over TCP/IP (term often seen in Microsoft documentation).

Name Management Protocol

Point-to-Point Protocol

Service Access Points

Server Message Block

System Message Block protocol

Sub-Network Access Protocol

Sequenced Packet Exchange

source Service Access Point

NetBIOS User Datagram Protocol or User Datagram Protocol in TCP/IP

Windows Internet Name Service - Microsoft's implementation of NBNS