Will Network Places always be empty with NETBIOS disabled ?

Hello.

We are currently trying to work out how much we can eliminate NETBIOS on our
network. So far we have a couple of applications which make use of 'Browse'
to select remote network shared folders and user's being used to using
Network Places to find remote computers. Can anyone confirm if NETBIOS is
disabled on servers and workstations (we are not using Exchange) whether
there is anyway of populating My Network Places\Entire Network\Microsoft
Windows Network\DomainName with all server and workstations connected to the
network, or is the only way of doing this using NETBIOS ? Or is the choice
literally NETBIOS or empty 'Network Places' but nothing in-between?

Thanks for any advice.

Alex.

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Alex <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> Hello.
>
> We are currently trying to work out how much we can eliminate NETBIOS
> on our network. So far we have a couple of applications which make
> use of 'Browse' to select remote network shared folders and user's
> being used to using Network Places to find remote computers. Can
> anyone confirm if NETBIOS is disabled on servers and workstations (we
> are not using Exchange) whether there is anyway of populating My
> Network Places\Entire Network\Microsoft Windows Network\DomainName
> with all server and workstations connected to the network, or is the
> only way of doing this using NETBIOS ? Or is the choice literally
> NETBIOS or empty 'Network Places' but nothing in-between?

Network Places is a NetBIOS application, if you disable NetBIOS, you disable
browsing network places.
You can still publish your shares in Active Directory, and search Active
Directory for the shares. Win2k had the ability to browse Active Directory
but the feature was removed in XP and Win2k3. If you want to add the
Directory Icon back to Network Places on XP you can extract it from the
latest Windows 2000 Service pack to %systemroot%/system32 folder and run
regsvr32 dsfolder.dll, If you don't want to download the full Win2k Service
Pack, I have previously extracted the file from SP4 and placed it here:
http://support.wftx.us/dsfolder.zip



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If you implement WINS, you can use netbios functions without the
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Alex wrote:
> Hello.
>
> We are currently trying to work out how much we can eliminate NETBIOS on our
> network. So far we have a couple of applications which make use of 'Browse'
> to select remote network shared folders and user's being used to using
> Network Places to find remote computers. Can anyone confirm if NETBIOS is
> disabled on servers and workstations (we are not using Exchange) whether
> there is anyway of populating My Network Places\Entire Network\Microsoft
> Windows Network\DomainName with all server and workstations connected to the
> network, or is the only way of doing this using NETBIOS ? Or is the choice
> literally NETBIOS or empty 'Network Places' but nothing in-between?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Alex.
>
>