I use it to keep jimmy from phoning home -- it's highly efective for that if nothing else.
Anyway, after swapping in the new pc and setting up the old on my
junkpile desk, the old is allowing network connections per usual (and this after sorting out that I plugged the cable into the wrong nic when I moved it). So maybe everything just had to be rebooted to sort itself out.
I had to use a keyboard that is so grungy it looks like it was puked on, even though it wasn't, not that I can remember. Well, maybe... Ick.
Damn. spoke too soon. Well, I can now connect to the old pc from linux, but Win 7 is still choking on the password. In my browsing yesterday I did come across some password problems that need to be addressed by a registry modification, which is apparently for pro versions, since I couldn't find the key in home premium.
EDITED: 23 Feb 2013 17:57 by DSMITHHFX