From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 13:20:06 EDT
> I had a similar problem when installing a Win2K network
> on the cold side of an SMC7004ABR Barricade router. I
> had to install NetBeui, in addition to TCP/IP. Zero
> documentation about this from SMC. The person who
> gave me the NetBeui hint, suggested that perhaps SMC
> didn't want to mention NetBeui because Microsoft may
> no longer be supporting NetBeui, even though it was
> their idea in the first place.
More likely, SMC didn't mention NetBEUI because it just doesn't have
anything to do with their router. They probably don't say a lot about
AppleTalk, IPX/SPX, or other unrelated protocols either. Their business is
routing IP packets, and their router isn't aware of other protocols you
might be running on your LAN.
Most Windows 2000 networks don't use NetBEUI--it isn't installed on any
Windows 2000 machine by default, only TCP/IP. Having a router doesn't mean
you need to start using NetBEUI either--I've set up a number of networks
with that same SMC unit (or its wireless sibling) and various other routers,
all using TCP/IP only.
I suspect that the reason both you and Richard had to install NetBEUI was
simply that a computer you wanted to connect to on your LAN had its file
sharing bound only to NetBEUI and not to TCP/IP. Disconnecting file sharing
from TCP/IP is a trick people often use for security when they don't have a
router or firewall--for example, it's described at www.grc.com.
So, an alternative to installing NetBEUI would have been to go into the
network settings on the other computer--the one you couldn't connect to--and
install TCP/IP if it wasn't there, or turn back on the binding that allows
file sharing over TCP/IP.
-Mike
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