Re: Which protocols & bindings?

>> Windows Firewall on the machines?
>
> Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
>> Yes.
>
> Expand a bit more..
> Is it configured in such a way to allow File and Print Sharing - even if
> just on the same subnet?
>
> Your machines were using IPX/SPX to communicate with each other before -
> because the Windows Firewall doesn't affect that protocol. Now that the
> protocol is gone on the machines with the printers - they are sharing
> using pure TCP/IP. If the Windows Firewall has not been configured to
> allow this type of traffic - it isn't going to occur.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley

Shenan: Thanks, I'll look and see what the firewall's settings are. Silly me
to think that Windows Firewall would let you figure this one out easily!

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com


"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.
>
> Shenan wrote:
>> Windows Firewall on the machines?
>
> Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
>> Yes.
>
> Expand a bit more..
> Is it configured in such a way to allow File and Print Sharing - even if
> just on the same subnet?
>
> Your machines were using IPX/SPX to communicate with each other before -
> because the Windows Firewall doesn't affect that protocol. Now that the
> protocol is gone on the machines with the printers - they are sharing
> using pure TCP/IP. If the Windows Firewall has not been configured to
> allow this type of traffic - it isn't going to occur.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
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> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>


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