Does Origin friends list use NetBios?

by Daedalus423
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Does Origin friends list use NetBios?

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I haven't been able to use the Origins friends list at all on my home network. It's worked at some other peoples houses, but it never works at my own. I've gone through router settings, MS firewall and the like, and none of it has worked. But today I just saw that the only port that is blocked on my router is the legacy NetBIOS. Now that is it's own issue of being legacy and being very easy to manipulate, but does friends list actually use NetBIOS?

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@Daedalus423 Have you tried enabling it to see if your Friends list works? 

 


Best thing to do is enable it and then try Origin again, if it works great and if not you can just block it again and we can try something else.

 

Also, have you ensured that your anti-virus isn't blocking Origin? 

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Re: Does Origin friends list use NetBios?

Community Manager

@Daedalus423 Have you tried enabling it to see if your Friends list works? 

 


Best thing to do is enable it and then try Origin again, if it works great and if not you can just block it again and we can try something else.

 

Also, have you ensured that your anti-virus isn't blocking Origin? 

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