RE: stupid windows question

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From: richard (rpritz_at_rcn.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 14:17:59 EDT


At 10:20 AM 7/2/2002 -0700, Michael Geary wrote:
>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.

bingo!


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