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mdlbearWell, I finally figured out what to enable on an XP machine, and my firewall, to let it see and communicate with the other machines on a Windows network. (update: you have to force it to use NetBUI over TCP -- it's two dumb to get it right in auto mode.) The LPR protocol problem is still a mystery, but one I no longer have to worry about. Now I need to find the driver disk for my inkjet printer.
I also figured out that the reason the new machine couldn't listen to streaming audio from filk radio was that almost all traffic from the PC zone to the net was blocked. Seemed like a good idea at the time. What I really had to do was unblock everything and block only the known-evil stuff going out. Need to figure out exactly what to block; at the moment it's really only Windows filesharing and SMTP mail.
I also figured out that the reason the new machine couldn't listen to streaming audio from filk radio was that almost all traffic from the PC zone to the net was blocked. Seemed like a good idea at the time. What I really had to do was unblock everything and block only the known-evil stuff going out. Need to figure out exactly what to block; at the moment it's really only Windows filesharing and SMTP mail.
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:52 pm (UTC)