Re: Which protocols & bindings?

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> Windows Firewall on the machines?

Yes.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
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Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
>> I need to maintain connection to a Novell Neware 3.2 server, so I
>> have to have IPX/SPX on a couple of my machines. But on machines that
>> don't connect to Netware, if I disable the IPX/SPX protocol, *or* the
>> NWLink, I can no longer print from an XP machine to another XP
>> machine.
>> Obviously I've got TPC/IP loaded, along with Client for Microsoft
>> Windows & File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Windows.
>>
>> I would have thought that I could maintain pure TCP/IP across the
>> Windows XP machines (the ones that don't need to connect to Netware)
>> and be fine, but, as mentioned, anything I do to limit IPX/SPX kills
>> printing. And yes, I did unbind IPX/SPX, which, I'd thought, would
>> force Windows to use the remaining TCP/IP binding.
>
> Windows Firewall on the machines?
>
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