This section describes the use of sockets with NetBIOS. Each application assigns itself one or more NetBIOS names for each adapter. The NetBIOS protocol maintains a table of the names that a node is known by on the network. NetBIOS supports two types of names: unique and group. When the name is unique, the application binds the name and NetBIOS checks the network to ensure that the name is not already being used as a unique name. NetBIOS supports multicast by allowing applications to bind to a group name and communicate.
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