SP2 and My Network Places--Broken Network Connection

[W. Watson]

As I wait for McAfee to respond to a question on how to get its firewall running
again after installing SP2, I've come up with another problem caused by installing
SP2. I cannot reach my other computers on My Network Places. Someone told me I could
solve this problem by going to Control Panel->Admin Tools->Services and then
scrolling through the list to Windows Firewall/Sharing to disable that service. Found
it (Windows Fwall/Inter Sharing) and disabled it, but now when I try to access
Network Places, I get a message saying that it can't find the GALAXY workgroup:
"Galaxy not accessible. You might not have the permssion... Contact administrator..."
My XP machine doesn't even show up, which is part of the Galaxy workgroup.
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[R. McCarty]

Networking with XP is very Service dependant and the Service's
themselves have interdependencies. Firewall is dependant on the
Network Connections, which needs the Remove Procedure call.
Stopping Services "Willy-Nilly" isn't good advice. Put Firewall on
Automatic or you'll just compound your problems and make it
twice as hard to fix.

 

[W. Watson]

Networking with XP is very Service dependant and the Service's
themselves have interdependencies. Firewall is dependant on the
Network Connections, which needs the Remove Procedure call.
Stopping Services "Willy-Nilly" isn't good advice. Put Firewall on
Automatic or you'll just compound your problems and make it
twice as hard to fix.

I certainly agree that it didn't fix the problem, and will reset to automatic. Aside
from that, what is the solution?