This is incorrect. The only protocol you should be using on a home LAN
using any version of Windows is TCP/IP.
NetBEUI = Extended User Interface is an old Windows for Workgroup protocol
that is not routable.
While it will work, without any configuration, you loose a great deal in
security and functionality.

Rode
The NOSPIN Group




A TCP/IP would not match up like it did from the Win98
>machine to a previous Win95 machine.  Both were running Novell but
>IPX/SPX would not match up either.  Netbui was the only common
>denominator I could get to work.  Also, when logging in to XP, you have
>to use the account that I mentioned previously above.  If you login under
>any other profile in XP, it probably won't show the Win98 machine in
>network neighborhood.
>
>Components I used were:
>Client for Microsoft Networks
>TCP/IP (for Internet)
>Netbui (for the common protocol for both Win2000 and Win98)
>IPX/SPX that was the protocol for Novell (I doubt you will have to have
>that if you are not on a Novell Network.)
>
>HTH,
>Derek Buchanan

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