Subj : LANs
To   : ROY J. TELLASON
From : JEAN PARROT
Date : Sun Jul 04 2004 10:41 am

        Hello Roy, 'tis a nice day today. 

 GM>>     Microsoft TCP/IP-32 3.11b [default]
 GM>>     Microsoft NetBEUI
 GM>>     IPX/SPX Compatible Transport with NetBIOS
 
 RT> I'm not sure you need those second two...   IPX/SPX in particular is
 RT> something that's got to do with Novell networks,

        Until, I got on XPP, IPX/SPX was required to LAN my three
 systems. I do not have it now and I can LAN fine. When looking at the
 I/F device on W98SE, it showed " Novell " and I never knew what that
 was. Now, on XPP, it does not show this. I have no clew why !

 GM> I have the XPP as "XPHome" and the W98SE as "Workgroup" and I 
 GM> haven't encountered any 'mishaps', yet...  I'll set up all three
 GM> machines to have the same name -- "Workgroup"...

        You do have to have them all on the same "named" network but
 choose another name than Workgroup for security and make is simple.
 Mine is called X for short, X is not it though. You can call yours P or
 PP or whatever but for a normal person, too much security is bad even
 if you NEED some. At one time, I did not want to use a password and
 left the slot blank safe for a space bar stroke. I then was always
 asked for the PW and I could not provide it until I saw that the slot
 cursor was not abuted to the left margin, it was a space. I changed the
 PW then and there and have been very cautious since about too much
 security. Encryption is another ball of wax !

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