Re: Outpost Pro with WinXP

From: Whoknows (whoknows@here.com)
Date: 12/05/02


From: Whoknows <whoknows@here.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:46:56 +1300

In article <uurm0vcp55tu86@corp.supernews.com>, rdleo1
@charter.net says...
> Does anyone use Outpost Pro firewall with WinXP Home? When my home network
> consisted of only Win98 machines, I could have Outpost Pro set on "Stop
> All," which I liked to do while I was offline (I have a cable modem), and
> still browse the local network, print to a network printer, etc. Now that
> I've installed WinXP Home on one of the machines, I can't seem to do that.
> Machines on the network can see each other, print, etc. only if the
> firewalls on both machines are set to "Policy Wizard." Does what I used to
> do not work with WinXP, or do I need to do something different with Outpost
> Pro to accomplish what I want to do?
>
>
>
You probably had netbeui enabled on your 98 machines
whereas it isn't native to xp.
Netbeui can't be routed over the internet so outpost
doesn't block it.
I use it on my internal network with xp fine.
But you can install it cause its on the xp disk
undersomething like addons directory.



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