Guest Gary Edstrom Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 I am aware the Microsoft has an unsupported driver for NetBEUI which will run under XP. I am also aware that the driver does not support Remote Access. Are there any 3rd party hacks available that will allow NetBEUI with Remote Access under WinXP? We need to provide legacy support for a large number of customer systems that are running on NT 4.0 platforms. Remote access to the customer's system was setup using NetBEUI. We can dial into the customer's system to retrieve diagnostic information via Windows Explorer. Updating these customer systems to XP is totally out of the question. We need to provide support to them for several more years before we obsolete the systems. Our current solution is to simply have an old dedicated computer that runs NT 4.0 and NetBEUI to dial-in to the customer's system and retrieve the files. It would be MUCH nicer if we could use any of our current XP systems to do the job. Any ideas? Thanks, Gary Edstrom -- Gary Edstrom <gedstrom@pacbell.net> Visit my Midway Island home page at http://gbe.dynip.com/Midway Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it. The above tagline is number 311 in a series of 549. Collect them all!
Guest Robert Moir Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 Re: NetBEUI support for Remote Access under XP "Gary Edstrom" <GEdstrom@PacBell.Net> wrote in message news:lkhqb35jlr1h4drs9vlki2j5jp7nqa135q@4ax.com... >I am aware the Microsoft has an unsupported driver for NetBEUI which > will run under XP. > > I am also aware that the driver does not support Remote Access. > > Are there any 3rd party hacks available that will allow NetBEUI with > Remote Access under WinXP? > > We need to provide legacy support for a large number of customer systems > that are running on NT 4.0 platforms. Remote access to the customer's > system was setup using NetBEUI. We can dial into the customer's system > to retrieve diagnostic information via Windows Explorer. > > Updating these customer systems to XP is totally out of the question. We > need to provide support to them for several more years before we > obsolete the systems. > > Our current solution is to simply have an old dedicated computer that > runs NT 4.0 and NetBEUI to dial-in to the customer's system and retrieve > the files. It would be MUCH nicer if we could use any of our current XP > systems to do the job. > > Any ideas? I am personally of the belief that sooner or later you just have to accept you've taken an old system as far as you can go with it, so I don't have a solution (though I wonder why you couldn't at least update the NT4.0 systems your customers have to work with TCP/IP as a nice medium term interim step). I may be able to suggest a better 'work-around' however. Download a copy of Virtual PC, and use this to give everyone who needs it a 'virtual' NT4 machine, which they can use from their own desktops to do what they have to do. Virtual PC is a free program from Microsoft and you can grab it at http://www.microsoft.com/virtualpc
Guest Doug Knox - [MS-MVP] Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 Re: NetBEUI support for Remote Access under XP NetBEUI is a non-routable protocol that, as far as I'm aware, is only suitable for file and print sharing on a local network. It is not suitable for any situation where traffic must be routed from point A to point B. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Gary Edstrom" <GEdstrom@PacBell.Net> wrote in message news:lkhqb35jlr1h4drs9vlki2j5jp7nqa135q@4ax.com... >I am aware the Microsoft has an unsupported driver for NetBEUI which > will run under XP. > > I am also aware that the driver does not support Remote Access. > > Are there any 3rd party hacks available that will allow NetBEUI with > Remote Access under WinXP? > > We need to provide legacy support for a large number of customer systems > that are running on NT 4.0 platforms. Remote access to the customer's > system was setup using NetBEUI. We can dial into the customer's system > to retrieve diagnostic information via Windows Explorer. > > Updating these customer systems to XP is totally out of the question. We > need to provide support to them for several more years before we > obsolete the systems. > > Our current solution is to simply have an old dedicated computer that > runs NT 4.0 and NetBEUI to dial-in to the customer's system and retrieve > the files. It would be MUCH nicer if we could use any of our current XP > systems to do the job. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Gary Edstrom > -- > Gary Edstrom <gedstrom@pacbell.net> > Visit my Midway Island home page at http://gbe.dynip.com/Midway > Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it. > The above tagline is number 311 in a series of 549. Collect them all!
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