David,

I had wanted to use NETBEUI all along, but Windows XP has discontinued
support for it and it is not installed. However, spurred on by your post, I
decided to do a Google search for NETBEUI under XP and lo and behold
discovered that Microsoft indeed includes an unsupported driver for NETBEUI
on the XP installation CD, under the Valueadd folder.

I installed the protocol as per MSFT's instruction on their web site and
sure enough, my problems are solved.

It also solved a problem I was having doing printer sharing with my wife's
Win98 laptop and my XP desktop.

Two birds for the price of one.

Thanks for the push in the right direction.

Michael

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]  On Behalf Of David Gillett
Sent:   December 1, 2002 1:48 PM
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Subject:        Re: [PCBUILD] Domain versus Workgroup

  There are three basic solutions which can help:

 [snip]

2.  Install NETBEUI, so that the machines can talk to each other via local
broadcast.  Since this actually uses the names instead of addresses, you may
need to make sure the domain/workgroup names match so that they show up in
each other's Network Neighborhood.  Since NetBEUI is broadcast (rather than
routed), it will not porpagate out to the Internet.

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