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Yea, thanks for the info!

Thanks! Now my next question is: Does anyone else know the other ports needed to completely block all NetBios traffic?

Quote: Block NetBios Port numbers at your router. THen it cannot leave you network I'm sorry but can you provide a step by step explaination? Thanks!

I was looking for some instructions to enable filesharing with two computers running on Win XP Pro, with a Linksys BEFSR41 router, and found some here Now I got sharing up and running but when I was assigning the names for the computers, I remember seeing something about a NetBIOS computer name. Now this is worrying me a lot because I remember reading about how vulnerable NetBIOS networks are especially when passwords are not being used [i did not set any passwords, I'm not quite sure how to do this for the network]. I also saw some NetBIOS settings: Default [selected right now], Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP and disabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP. I tried disabling it but I couldn't share files anymore just like I thought would happen. I remember reading that I can increase security on NetBIOS by using Scope IDs. Anyone tell me how to do this? Another thing: I disabled simple filesharing so I can set permissions for shared folders. However, when I tried adding a new user/group it only searches my computer for the particular user/group. When I went into the Location Window, I only can see my own computer and not my other one as well. Same thing happens the other way around. Is there a way for me to select the other computer in searching users for the sharing permissions? [i'm able to see the other computer in the workgroup and access their shared files right now, but I want put a limitation since "Everyone" can access the files]

I'll try that but I'll have to get a connector. Anyone else have other ideas?

Just recently installed SP1 and my logitech USB optical mouse still functions properly but under the new mouseware drivers [provided by logitech], some features do not function after a period of time. For instance, my middle-wheel button acts as minimize button and it allows me to minimize my windows easily but after a while the mouseware functions come to a hault and the middle button doesn't minimize my windows anymore. I also see a significant decrease in mouse speed. This also happens on certain windows I open [like everytime I view the contents on D drive], and when I revert back to a different window the functions come back to me again. At first I thought it was the new mouseware drivers so I uninstalled those and tried different kinds of mouse software such as CoolMouse and UltraMouse. I stuck with ultramouse only to find out that the samething happens also. This may have been difficult to understand but if anyone can find a solution to this, that'll be great. I'm trying to avoid restoring my system before SP1 was installed so any workarounds are appreciated. Thanks in advance.