Editing NetBIOS over TCP/IP (section)

{{Short description|Networking protocol}}
'''NetBIOS over TCP/IP''' ('''NBT''', or sometimes '''NetBT''') is a [[computer network|networking]] [[communication protocol|protocol]] that allows legacy computer applications relying on the [[NetBIOS]] [[API]] to be used on modern [[Internet protocol suite|TCP/IP]] [[computer network|network]]s.

NetBIOS was developed in the early 1980s, targeting very small networks (about a dozen computers). Some applications still use NetBIOS, and do not [[scalability|scale]] well in today's networks of hundreds of computers when NetBIOS is run over [[NetBIOS Frames|NBF]]. When properly configured, NBT allows those applications to be run on large TCP/IP networks (including the whole [[Internet]], although that is likely to be subject to security problems) without change.

NBT is defined by the RFC 1001 and RFC 1002 standard documents.