Re: Help with long term network problem

Chuck,

All are connected and can still access router and internet.

Symptoms were not finding mapped network drives or shared printer on
DATA by other machines on the LAN.

Depending on the boot sequence of the computers this changed. If I
shut all down and started DATA then NEOBAT then NEOBAT could use mapped
network drive and shared printer, but not CMM or Dell8400. If I Booted
Data followed by CMM it could access all shared services, but them the
rest could not.

As noted in the beginning all with the LAN has been smooth for nearly a
decade with migrating varied dedicated servers in and out and not
dispensing with the dedicated server and just using on (DATA) as file
server and print server and running the Veritas Server BU SW so I can
back up the entire system to tape drive.

I did learn that Panda has changed some of the Firewall management for
previous versions we were running. Seems that one now needs to
explicitly list IP addresses of all computers on LAN to allow open and
free communication. In the past simply checking a box the then entire
LAN was secure and communication should be allowed was all that was
needed.

There are issues with CMM machine like the browser will not start and
now you pointed out the registry is not available. This may not be a
problem if browser services are only handled by DATA and NEOBAT.

I will let the system sit for the rest of the week end (actually need
to get back to finalizing a risk assessment for the water birds of
Belize then head to Cuba later next week to do bat work.

If everything seems to be functional at the moment I assume we are
done?

If Panda Firewall continues to cause problems using your layered
approach with multiple programs may be in order again. It was a big
pain with Symantec/Norton, Adawae and a host of other separate programs
since I would be the only one to run them and Panda will run fine on
its own on all machines.

FYI you might post to others that the Panda Internet Security 2006
needs a bit more care to config the firewall in a LAN.

http://www.pandasoftware.com/com/support/card?id=10028&idIdioma=2&pagina=5


Thanks for the hand holding and help.

Bruce

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