little snitch netbiosd

What is `netbiosd` and why does your Mac keep making connections with `netbiosd` ?

If you’ve installed little snitch you’ll see requests from `netbiosd` for things like `port 137` for `netbios-ns`:

little snitch netbiosd

Well, according to the `netbiosd` manual / `man` page:

> netbiosd is responsible for interacting with NetBIOS networks. netbiosd registers and defends one or more NetBIOS name[s], depending on the set of configured services. It also browses and scavenges names from the NetBIOS network, making them available to the system through mDNSResponder.

One suggestion is that if you want `netbiosd` to stop making connections you should turn off file and print sharing via “Sharing” in system preferences

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