Re: How to tell which protocol (NetBUI or TCP/IP) each Network Neighborhood connection is using

From: James Egan (jegan_at_mailinator.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:24:33 +0100

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:13:04 -0600, "Steve Winograd [MVP]"
<winograd@pobox.com> wrote:

>If I wanted multiple levels of security,

Forget the ifs, you don't do it yourself because it's not necessary so
why advise others to waste their resources with an unused personal
firewall?

> I'd use both a broadband
>router and a software firewall, but I wouldn't add another protocol.
>

NetBEUI might be okay with legacy windows machines but the future is
connecting *everyone* together. Macs have their own version of samba
along with linux, *bsd and others and they all connect together via
tcp/ip. Not much use for netbeui in the overall scheme.

Jim.