Re: Home Networking in XP - need help

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From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 05/08/04 

Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 14:07:55 -0600

In article <a4a901c43534$186d6310$a101280a@phx.gbl>,
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Haven't had a chance to test yet but several web sites
>suggests setting the NetBIOS over TCPIP option in TCPIP
>parameters for the XP system. I had forgotten (since I set
>up my own home network for Windows 2000 and ME two years
>ago) that file/printer sharing does not use the TCPIP
>protocol but the NetBEUI protocol.

All versions of Windows can network using NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
Nothing in Windows networking requires, or has ever required NetBEUI.

The key to Windows networking is to use the same, single protocol for
file/printer sharing on all computers. If your existing network uses
NetBEUI, you can add NetBEUI to XP and disable sharing over TCP/IP.

I've written a web page with details:

Windows XP Network Protocols
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/network_protocols.htm 

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