HolmanGT
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join:2001-11-20
Saint George, UT
 ·Baja Broadband
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Re: NIS shuts off printing- Beware of Live Update 5/9
ThreeD,
Well just to one up-ya I tried it on three machines. Two with XP Pro and one with XP Home. Yup you guessed it now none of my machines can print while NIS is running.
It just drives me crazy, I take so much care not to install anything that will upset XP and probably the second most trusted piece of software on my machines has done me in. |
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ThreeD
join:2001-05-19
Southern Cal
clubs:
| said by holmanGT:
ThreeD,
Well just to one up-ya I tried it on three machines. Two with XP Pro and one with XP Home. Yup you guessed it now none of my machines can print while NIS is running.
Does this mean that I only have 2/3's of a problem??  |
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ThreeD
join:2001-05-19
Southern Cal
clubs:
| reply to HolmanGT
Figured out a work around for now if you are interested. I installed Netbeui, this lets the print server show up in network. Then configured printers as network printers. Not using the redirector from Linksys this way and by using Netbeui, the communications slip under the firewall. Not a perfect situation but a workaround until Symantec gets their act together. |
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MrChuckles
Say What?
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join:2000-11-19
Westminster, MD | Thanks for the tip. I will try that one out. |
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ThreeD
join:2001-05-19
Southern Cal
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| Just an additional heads up. NIS is broken in more than one way with this latest update. As stated it is blocking the print servers. It is also not reacting correctly to scans. Didn't notice at first because my machines are behind a router. Put a machine outside the router and get a scan from one of the testing sites. NIS will ask to make rules for each port scanned rather than generating security alerts. |
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