hi!

depending on how "clean" your SMB network is set up, we've found TCP/IP more efficient when it comes to network resources, means, whenever possible we use TCP/IP to avoid all the NetBIOS overhead. named pipes is our "fallback" if TCP/IP won't work (eg. weird windows network configuration issues, like no wins server and LM resolution on, means, something you'd never expect to find in the "wild" 😉

best regards,

chris