Text 21819, 40 rader
Skriven 2006-10-03 14:53:31 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
  Kommentar till text 21782 av Jeff Guerdat (1:275/311)
Ärende: Outlook Express & network
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>> XP does that checkmark on it's own, randomly since not every folder is
>> compressed but it is removeable.

 JG> I've never seen XP (or W2K or NT) do that on it's own *except* for service
 JG> pack/hotfix backup directories in the system folder.

Neither have I until I saw this one.

>> I have a peer-to-peer network and the router is DHCP and if I remove NETBEUI
>> the network is down.

 JG> I have a peer-to-peer network using DHCP from my home router (D-Link) and
 JG> have absolutely no NETBEUI used anyplace.  I have seen no routers that
 JG> work this way, either, especially since I don't know of a way to have a
 JG> typical router use DHCP to serve NETBEUI.  You would be unable to connect
 JG> to the Internet since NETBEUI is unrouteable, anyways.

You were right (but I guess you already knew that). I removed NETBEUI and
it still works and it even speeded up the connection.

>>  JG>   Failure of pings strongly implies improper firewall settings, which
>>  JG> would also impact protocols, such as MS Networking, that run on top of
>>  JG> TCP/IP.
>>
>> Then I shouldn't be able to ping both laptops from every desktop, would it?

 JG> Depends on which machines have the firewall configuration in a "stealth"
 JG> mode.  However, assuming you comments above are correct (ignoring the
 JG> NETBEUI for the moment), if you can ping the laptops from any desktop but
 JG> the laptops cannot ping each other then there's something else at work.  I
 JG> know it's a pain but perhaps if you listed the settings for one desktop
 JG> and both laptops things would become more clear.  Use the following
 JG> command line from a DOS prompt on all machines:

As you must have seen by now it was the firewall in Norton Internet Security
that caused the problem and it has been fixed now but thanks for your interest
to help me.

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