NETBIOS and WINS on Android without a domain?

Question

Android

A key feature of Active Directory is the ability to access computers not by IP addresses, but by their names. At what the standard DNS is responsible for Name Resolving, which means that you can use the domain names of computers on MacOS, iOS and Android.
But the workgroup also has computer names and you can also rummage through folders. Computers somehow keep records of names and IP addresses, and everything works fine.
1) Is it possible to use the NETBIOS names of computers in the workgroup on an Android tablet?
2) Is it possible to give an Android tablet a NETBIOS name and include it in a workgroup so that it can be connected to from a computer?

Answer 1

1. It is possible, it depends on the client with which you open smb
2. It has it by default, for example, it is displayed when searching for bluetooth, or it changes in the settings
Records about PC names, on the home network, it usually stores the router that distributes And since in most cases it also acts as a DNS server, then it will resolve names

Answer 2

Do not mess with netbios names, use DNS - it's reliable, understandable and manageable, unlike netbios, which is a "thing in itself".

Answer 3

1. practically none.
support for receiving broadcasts of netbios names and converting and slipping them into the standard and generally accepted dns resolver was handled by winbind.
Some time ago, my netbios name listener in winbind fell off, in the logs there are constant moans something is wrong with rpc, there was no solution - I shot it so that it would not suffer.
register static names in hosts and ok.