Re: Zone Alarm Problems

XP Firewall is enabled on all three computers. For IP, I believe it's
dynamic. Cable Internet if that helps. And finally, workgroup, not domain.
Each computer is connected via the 4-port router.
"Mistoffolees" <mistyfac01@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Travis King wrote:
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>> Installed Zone Alarm and it would keep blocking the computers on the
>> network, so I added them to the list of IP addresses to except, but the
>> next time you'd restart the computer, it would block them again. I
>> updated Zone Alarm to get a message when you open Zone Alarm saying that
>> said something like system error - restart your computer in the corner.
>> So, I did and it still did it. Uninstalled Zone Alarm, and now I didn't
>> have any access to the Internet or our home network at all. Reinstalled
>> the old version of Zone Alarm, and configured it occordingly. I was able
>> to get the Internet back, but it still can't access the network. I again
>> put the IP addresses in, but it still blocked the network this time. No
>> computers can connect to this computer either. (Meaning another computer
>> can't access the computer with the problem's network folder.) On the
>> computer with the problem, I get this message: (Window Title: My Network
>> Places) \\COMPUTER1\SharedDocs is not accessible. You might not have
>> permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of
>> this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network was
>> not found. If I just try to access the computer with the problem from
>> another computer, the explorer will just freeze up. Thanks.
>>
>> Oh by the way, everytime that I got to a certain spot installing
>> ZoneAlarm when I went to reinstall it, the computer would restart itself.
>> I had to go into Safe Mode to get it to install. If you can tell me how
>> to fix the problem without having Zone Alarm, that would work too because
>> after all the problems I've had with it, I'm ready to remove it if I can
>> without causing other problems.
>
> Several questions to clarify things. First, is Windows XP
> firewall disabled? Second, what type of IP addressing is being
> used for the network connection --- static IP or dynamic IP?
> Third, what type of network --- to a domain or a workgroup?
>


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