Well 8trak, you got me laughing
Netbios was origanlly used by Novell over ipx/spx and Microsoft over netbeiu (sorry for the spelling, I try). The first instances of netbios over tcp/ip wern't available until the eraly 90's when IBM and Microsoft both came out with implementations for it.
Netbeiu is perfectly adequate for what it was designed for, LAN, it uses huge packets for speed etc. It was never designed to be used between 2 tin cans joined with a piece of string like tcp/ip was.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough, Netbios should NEVER be used across the Ineternet unless it is within a VPN. It should never be mapped to tcp/ip on an open Internet machine
As to never having a system compromised (again, apologies for the speeling errors), great, I'm happy for you
cheers
