Guest JCW2 Posted December 18, 2011 Posted December 18, 2011 I know, I know, this very obsolete stuff, but... I would like to know if there is any way to get NetBEUI running under XP SP3. I have a small Workgroup that still has some W2K machines running NetBEUI for file sharing within the LAN. (TCP/IP file sharing is turned off I was advosed long ago that it was safer this way because of various Microsoft vulnerabilities in NetBIOS over Tcpip.) I have two XP XP3 machines on this Workgroup that were upgraded from SP2 AFTER NetBEUI had already been installed, and they are networking just fine. Here's the problem: I am now upgrading one of the W2K machines with a XP SP3 new-install CD -- there is no way to uninstall SP3 and re-install it after NetBEUI. (Interestingly, NetBEUI still appears in the VALUEADD directory on this CD, suggesting that it might work.) I have notes from the days of upgrading the other XP machines from SP2, however, that it was necessary to install NetBEUI (the W2K version was recommended because of compaitbility issues with the W2K machines) BEFORE installing SP3, but I don't remember why. Can anybody offer a solution (preferably not involving reconfiguring my entire Workgroup)? -- JCW2 Continue reading... Quote
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