Re: Peer-to-Peer without NetBeui

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From: Chris Knapp (dont_at_spam.me)
Date: 02/04/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:19:43 -0800

You don't need NetBEUI if you have TCP/IP installed already. As long as each
PC has a unique IP address & NetBIOS name, you can use peer-to-peer
connections. The 2 issues most have with peer-to-peer networks is finding
the peers (name resolution) and accessing shares once the peer is found.
With less than 10 PC's on the lan, name resolution shouldn't be a problem
(they will broadcast themselves to each other.) Accessing the shares will be
exactly as if you had NetBEUI installed: The connecting peer must know a
valid username & password on the shared peer.

example.

PC1:
NetBIOS Name = COMP1
IP = 192.168.1.100
User logs in locally as "bob" , password "123"

PC2:
NetBIOS Name = COMP2
IP = 192.168.1.101
User logs in locally as "Joe", password "456"

For Bob to connect to Joe's computer, he would either have to:
1) know Joe's login & password, -or-
2) Joe would have to create a user account on COMP2 named "bob" with the
password "123". -or-
3) There is a third way but I hesitate to tell you since it will open your
PC up to anyone. hint: search the help for "Guest Account."

Good luck

"Mark Everly" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:a30501c3eb34$d97c61e0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Am quite sure this has been discussed 1000's of times.
> My apologies for asking again. However, I could not find
> a definitive answer.
>
> We have a small network (<10) computers running a mix of
> 2000 and XP. We have 1 "server". However, it is simply
> another Peer on the network. Currently, to access shared
> resources between PC's we use NetBeui (Added to XP
> machines). However, we have an application to access
> external resources (CheckPoint) that will not function
> with NetBeui as it considers it insecure.
>
> I see references to using TCP as a method of "internal"
> networking, but could not find answers on how to
> configure.
>
> Is there a "how-to" that might provide some info.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any advice
>
> Mark Everly

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