On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:45:26 GMT, jankin wrote:

I suggest you get rid of NetBEUI. You don't need it, as TCP/IP
will do everything you want. Having an unnecessary protocol will
only cloud the issues.

Won't that destroy the network neighborhood functions, ie. no way to
browse the network, etc.?


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.