RE: Firewalls and File Sharing
From: fkdup74 (fkdup74_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/04/04
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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:39:01 -0800
you could try a 3rd party firewall, i.e. sygate or zone alarm (preferably
sygate)
while i applaud microsoft's efforts, their firewall falls a bit short,
and is trickier to setup than any 3rd party f/w i have used
"TenXer" wrote:
> I have a home XP Pro machine and an XP Pro laptop that I use on the domain at
> my office, but wanted to use the laptop to share printers and files with my
> home PC. I setup the home machine as a workgroup with the same name as my
> office domain, and set both machines to automatically assign an IP when using
> the alternate network configuration so I wouldn't have to rejoin the domain
> everytime I took the laptop back to the office. The machines connect via
> wireless router, and when I first tested the connection neither machine could
> see the other. The IP's of each are in the same gateway but I could only
> ping the laptop from the home PC, not visa-versa. That is, until I disabled
> the firewall on the home PC. Then everything worked fine. Why is this - and
> how can I protect BOTH PC's from internet access and still share resources?
> I appreciate any help anyone can give.
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