Net Send with XPSP2 firewall

[johnpienaar]

Hi

Wondering if anyone can help with this- I''ve just installed SP2 for WinXp Pro and enabled the firewall- It's just Set to "On", not "Don't Allow exceptions". The problem I am having is that I cannot send or receive "Net send"'s anymore. can anyone tell me what to disable on the firewall to get this to work, without completely disabling the firewall.

Thanks
John

 

[bcastner]

Go to the Exception tab and double-click "Printer and File Sharing", then Change Scope button (lower left), and include your LAN subnet.

 

[tlcscousin]

I would also suggest checking the messenger service is turned on.
It was supposed to be turned off by default in SP2, to eliminate popups.

 

[brian80909]

SP2 Turns off the messinger service by default. Turn it back on and all should be good.