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The latest versions of CIFS can run "natively" over TCP/IP without requiring the "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" layer. In this implementation the NetBIOS layer is removed completely.
With the introduction of Windows 2000 and Active Directory, the latest version of CIFS can use traditional fully qualified DNS names to represent nodes on the network.
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