🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:40:15 -0400, "David H. Lynch Jr."
<dhlii@1dla.com> wrote:

>
>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

I've been doing it for years(7)...  
  Netbeui for file/printer sharing..(Nearly unhackable Server.)
  TCP/IP + firewall for internet activities.. 

As for Linux.. That remains to be seen.. (I may the protocol hooks
myself. I am switching my server to Linux, and I don't want to take
the performance hit.)


>be an exception somewhere.
>I am not a MAC expert but I doubt they do. Using NetBeui is heading down a
>dead end.
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>"BPC" <theconsumer@comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:x1iU8.517685$%y.34852490@bin4.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
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>> "BPC" <theconsumer@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:OThU8.91744$Ca2.5006761@bin2.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
>> >
>> > 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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