Quoted: wow, now i'd like to know how that got uninstalled
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Quoted: You do NOT need NetBEUI installed, and installing it will slow down your network considerably. TCP/IP is the only protocol needed.
-Troy
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I went to the second link that A_Free_Man posted and when through the steps. Instead of installing NetBEUI I installed TCP/IP and everything works great now. Thanks for everyone's help.
Shawn
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Simple: go to the "connection" in question (usually called Local Area Connection), go to Properties, select NetBEUI, and click Remove. Make sure TCP/IP is still listed.
TCP/IP and NetBEUI are both network protocols. When you use more than one protocol, it's kind of like using more than one envelope to send one letter. Imagine that you needed to mail a short note to someone, so you put it in an envelope (called TCP/IP), fully addressed and stamped, and then put that envelope into ANOTHER envelope (called NetBEUI), using a different address scheme. Your recipient (and everyone else on the network segment) is going to have to open the first envelope, then open the second envelope, to see if the letter is for them or not. Now imagine doing this 50,000 times per minute.
Removing NetBEUI means that you remove the processing for NetBEUI from each of those transactions, eliminating the whole "second envelope". This saves a huge amount of network resources, especially on a busy network.
-Troy