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From: Jeff Shultz
Geo. wrote:
> "Gary Britt" wrote in message
> news:401d928c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> About the only thing XP did that would have been of some help, was that
>> it apparently turns on netbui automatically, unlike win2K, that or XP
>> doesn't need netbui the way win2k does to see a win98 machine on the peer
>> to peer home network.
>
> It doesn't even have netbeui, you have to install that special from the
> "obsolete" stuff on the CD (took a whole lot of us beta testers
> complaining in the beta newsgroups to even get them to include it on the
> CD). What it does do is netbios over tcp which does the P2P stuff.
>
> Geo.
And the NETBEUI stuff is _SLOW_.
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Jeff Shultz
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