Make sure that WINS is not configured on the TCP/IP protocol in the Network
Configuration on the NT server.  WINS is Microsoft's implementation of a
NetBIOS Name Server.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nic Gandin [SMTP:nic AT ITRON-CA DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 2:24 PM
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
> Subject:      NV 5.0/NT NETBIOS Name Service packets
>
> Even when I ovstop all my NT NV 5.0 services/daemons except for trapd,
> ovspmd and nvservice,
> still every time my agent sends a SNMP trap to NV, the agent box got a
> bunch of request back
> from NV box to destination port 137 (NETBIOS Name Service ?) . My agent is
> on the pSOS
> box that does not speak NETBIOS.
>
> I would not care about this but my network is a tightly scheduled narrow
> bandwidth one and
> a bunch of unwanted messages does make a difference.
>
> Netview is a 200 nodes limited NV 5.0 version on NT 4.0.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> nic