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It is possible that your firewall software could interfere with your ability
to comunicate with your print server.
The job of firewalls is to get in the way some of the time. However when
they are properly configured they are
going to get in the way when someone outside your net tries to illicitly
access resources inside your net - for
example preventing them from dumping a copy of the linux kernel to your
print server and wasting paper
and causeing you headaches, but they will not interfere with you doing what
you need to do - print.
Also the firewall can only interfere if it is in the middle. It can not
prevent other machines on your
net from accesing the print server, but it can prevent the user on the
machine the firewall is running
on from accessing the pint server depending on how it is configured.

    Finally, NetBeui is a dead protocol. I can not understand any reason
that LinkSys would have
advised you to use it. For a completely unskilled user it is probably easier
to set up, but if you
were able to get your cable modem working, pretty much the same skill set
will get you through setting up
the print server using TCP/IP. Supporting two protocols on your net (NetBeui
and TCP/IP) is just going to
cause problems in the future. I doubt the XP2 or XP.NET or whatever M$ is
calling it will support
netbeui. Linux will not. I am not aware of a Unix that will, but there must
be an exception somewhere.
I am not a MAC expert but I doubt they do. Using NetBeui is heading down a
dead end.




"BPC" <theconsumer@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "BPC" <theconsumer@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > Many thanks to everyone who responded. I will install the Netbeiu
> protocol,
> > attempt to configure the print server and report back to the group on my
> > success (or lack of it).
>
> I forgot to mention Linksys support had me uninstall my firewall (Neoworx
> Neowatch) claiming that this was preventing me from communicating with the
> print server. Is this true or can I reinstall my firewall? Will
reinstalling
> the firewall cause the print server not to work (assuming I can get it
> working)? I know my router acts as a firewall, but since I am using a
> Comcast cable modem, I would still prefer to have a firewall in place.
>
> Thanks again
> BPC
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