If it works, why fix it? Besides the old saw about NETBEUI being safer
from intrusion on internet capable machines.

James Egan wrote:
When you installed netbeui you merely replaced the (not working)
tcp/ip as the protocol being used to network the machines locally.

After you uninstall all the firewalls, if you can ping okay in all
directions then you should be able to do away with netbeui since
tcp/ip will be working correctly. If you can't ping in all directions
then something is still wrong.

In theory it should be okay to leave netbeui installed and the two
protocols (netbeui and tcp/ip) should happily co-exist but xp doesn't
appear to handle this as well as win9x so most pundits reckon just
using the one protocol is the best way to go.


Jim.