A text string giving the endpoint's NBP name. The value for each of these fields is an alphanumeric string of up to 32 characters. The NBP name is not case sensitive. When you bind an endpoint with an NBP address, you must specify a value for the name and type fields, but you don't have to specify the zone. Another example might be the use of the name in personal file sharing, where the name field is used to register the computer name.
Clients can use that name to identify the computer they're logging into.
Applications offering similar services can find one another and identify potential partners by looking up only those addresses with a specific type. You could request the mapper provider to return the names of all of the registered entities of a certain type, for example, all file servers or laser printers. The zone field identifies the zone within the network to which the node belongs. You may not use the AppleTalk NBP wildcard characters as part of the NBP name, type, or zone. When you use an NBP structure to define an NBP address format, you copy the string specifying the NBP name into the NBP name buffer.