Re: XP Pro does not map Computer Names to Network IP addresses Why?

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Chuck <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Under TCP/IP - Properties, if you select "Obtain an IP address automatically",
>you will have an Alternate Configuration tab. You can select "User configured",
>and enter fixed information, just as you would do on your other computers. This
>fixed information, though, will only be used if a DHCP server is NOT available.
>At his school, he'll still get dynamic settings.
><http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_tcpip_pro_altconfig.mspx>

In the Router DHCP SERVER should be Disabled? Then only Static IP's can be
routed?

>On the subject of the Trusted Zone, I'm not sure what your problem is. The only
>ZAP I've worked with (which was V5.5 IIRC), I set the scope to individual
>addresses, not subnet. I then entered the individual addresses, one at a time.
The desktop ZAP 5.5 only has the network xxx.xxx.1.0/255.255.255.0 as trusted
and the DNS's IP addresses as trusted.

The Laptop has a fixed IP of xxx.xxx.1.200. That IP was not in the ZAP trusted
zone yet I had full access to the Desktop's shared files. xxx.xxx.1.200 was not
block.

It seems that ZAP lets anything from the network in if the network is trusted.

Does your ZAP have the network line in the trusted zone?

Thanks

Dennis



>Once you have your Trusted Zone set, you set the protection level to Medium
>there (read the description for Medium), and you set to High for the Internet
>Zone (read description for High).
>
>I'm not sure how protected (if at all) a Linksys print server would be. My
>guess is if he addresses it directly, he should have no problem. If you're
>sharing the printer from one of your computers, you'll have to read up on ZAP
>and how to make custom rules, ie put your son's computer into a special IP
>group, with special access.

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