{"id":2224,"date":"2020-06-09T21:16:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=2224"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:10:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:10:59","slug":"disable-netbios-over-tcp-ip-support","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/disable-netbios-over-tcp-ip-support","title":{"rendered":"NetBIOS over TCP\/IP: 5 Easy Steps to Disable and Improve Network Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>NetBIOS over TCP\/IP allows host name resolution for NetBIOS names over the TCP\/IP protocol. By disabling NetBIOS TCP\/IP support is to improve performance, it\u2019s recommended that you disable NetBIOS over TCP\/IP on your cluster network NIC and other dedicated purpose.<\/h4>\n<p><strong>To disable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/searchnetworking\/definition\/NetBIOS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NetBIOS<\/a> over TCP\/IP support<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From the\u00a0<strong>Network and Internet\u00a0<\/strong>icon in\u00a0<strong>Control Panel<\/strong>\u00a0, select\u00a0<strong>Local Area Connection<\/strong>\u00a0and right-click\u00a0<strong>Properties<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>On the\u00a0<strong>General<\/strong>\u00a0tab, click\u00a0<strong>Internet Protocol (TCP\/IP)<\/strong>\u00a0in the list of components, and click the\u00a0<strong>Properties<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<li>Click the\u00a0<strong>Advanced<\/strong>\u00a0button.<\/li>\n<li>Click the\u00a0<strong>WINS<\/strong>\u00a0tab.<\/li>\n<li>Next Click\u00a0<strong>Disable NetBIOS over TCP\/IP<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/techterms.com\/img\/xl\/netbios_450.png\" alt=\"NetBIOS over TCP\/IP\" width=\"231\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please refer to the following articles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/iis-generate-csrs-certificate-signing-requests\/\">.Generate CSRs (Certificate Signing Requests)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetBIOS over TCP\/IP allows host name resolution for NetBIOS names over the TCP\/IP protocol. By disabling NetBIOS TCP\/IP support is to improve performance, it\u2019s recommended that you disable NetBIOS over TCP\/IP on your cluster network NIC and other dedicated purpose. To disable NetBIOS over TCP\/IP support From the\u00a0Network and Internet\u00a0icon in\u00a0Control Panel\u00a0, select\u00a0Local Area Connection\u00a0and right-click\u00a0Properties. On the\u00a0General\u00a0tab, click\u00a0Internet Protocol&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[55],"kbtag":[1282,1283],"class_list":["post-2224","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-windows-server","kbtag-netbios","kbtag-tcp-ip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2224\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}