Detecting the Presence of NetBIOS in Win32s

Last reviewed: November 2, 1995
Article ID: Q110844

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32s versions 1.1 and 1.2

The way to determine whether NetBIOS is present from a Win32 application running on Win32s is to issue an invalid NetBIOS command (such as 0xB2) and check that the return code is 0x3 (Illegal command).

Additional reference words: 1.10 1.20
KBCategory: kbprg
KBSubcategory: W32s

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Last reviewed: November 2, 1995
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