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echo: nthelp
to: Randall Parker
from: Geo.
date: 2004-07-14 18:23:24
subject: Re: NetBEUI no longer supported on WinXP?

From: "Geo." 

You don't need netbeui at all, you can remove that if these are the only
two machines on his network.

As for netbios over tcp, if you can do a

net view \\ipaddress

and see the machine then it's using it.

Geo.

"Randall Parker"
 wrote in
message news:40f59007$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Geo,
>
> I had him set an IP address on the new machine and pinged from his old
machine to his
> new machine. So I know things are good at that level.
>
> I'm guessing that the NetBEUI on the NT box isn't working with the WXP box.
But how
> to tell whether it is using NetBIOS over TCP/IP? Where to look on both boxes?
>
> Geo. wrote:
> > click start, run, type \\ipaddress\sharename and hit enter.
> >
> > Geo.

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