Re: Firewall makes c: inaccessible on LAN

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From: SlowJet (SlowJet_at_noTY2this.com)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 04:50:57 GMT

The "My Documents" folder may have be made PRIVATE during the install of XP.
I suggest you move it to a sub folder in "Shared Documets"

I could be that simple and the cause is permissions.

I will assume you have all the proper FW ports open via EXCEPTION TAB, NIC
protocols, and have the users accounts authorization set. And your NTFS is
from a fresh clean install, not an update or FAT32 convert.

SJ
"George" <air1@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:uweayJuvEHA.2684@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I just installed SP-2 on WinXP.
>
> This doesn't seem to make sense... I "shared" a folder (within c:\My
> Documents) and the share screen even says (with the WinXP firewall ENABLED
> that) ... "Windows firewall is configured to allow this folder to share".
>
> Problem is...other PC's on the LAN can't see the folder...they show the
> folder as "inaccessible". When I turn OFF the firewall, everything
> appears on the other PC's...the folder is accessible.
>
> Can someone help with what's going on here?
>
> I don't want to get into the thing of... "your router has a firewall so
> you don't need WinXP firewall anyway". Yes, I do have a Linksys firewall
> router, but I also have a backup dialup connection so I ENABLED the WinXP
> firewall to protect THAT path in case someone uses it. But in WinXP it's
> all or nothing... "enabling" applies to the LAN connection too... WinXP
> doesn't allow you to set ENABLED to firewall for the dialup, and
> NON-ENABLED for the LAN that goes thru the firewall router to outside
> Internet. Take my word for it.
>
> So, why does WinXP say its firewall is configured to allow this folder to
> share"... but then it really doesn't allow the share at all?
>
> Thanks,
> George
>

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