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Originally Posted by glc
Why did you say this then?
Sure looks to me like you had McAfee running the whole time. You aren't going to get quality assistance here if you mislead us like that.
Personal firewalls are not designed to be used with lan filesharing. The XP SP2 firewall works fine with file and print sharing because you grant that as an exception. 3rd party firewalls are nothing but a pain in the neck, you might as well just lock it back up tight and use NetBEUI for filesharing if you insist on using McAfee, it will go right through any firewall and is not visible to the Internet.
Installing NetBEUI in XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...301041&sd=tech |
i know i said that, at the time it was still blocked not sure why but that was the case. I had no intention of misleading as i get no benefit from it. Thx for netbeui suggestion will take a look at that.