DOES NIS 2010 NEED "FILE AND PRINTER SHARING ACROSS MICROSOFT NETWORKS"

I know NIS 2009 doesn’t need “file and printer sharing across Microsoft networks” to work, but does NIS 2010 Version 17.0.0.136 need it checked and turned on to work, I have XP Pro/2005 Media Edition SP2 with IE7…Thanks to anyone who can help,.Gorpy 1