[ale] Firewalling question

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"Patrick W. Jones" wrote:
> 
> > Sure there is, you don't turn on print or file sharing in Windows or
> > Samba.
> As long as you have networking installed on Windows then it will
> show up in network neighborhood - even if sharing is disabled.
> I am not sure if there is a particular part of networking that
> can disable this.  I have tried several things here at work to see
> if I could get the machine to not show up and so far I have found
> nothing.

Actually, I think there was an article about this very thing in 'login;'
magazine a few months back.   Being the tech. packrat I am, I'll see if
I can locate it.

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