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| 605142 | 2007-10-25 04:01:00 | I am trying to network 3 pc's at home through my broadband router, each pc has ZoneAlarm version:7.0.408.000 free firewall running which will not allow my pc's to read data even though they can see each other. I don't want to run without the firewall so can anyone offer a workaround? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 605143 | 2007-10-25 04:24:00 | Did you go into ZA's config and add the network stuff on all of them? And did you create and share a folder on all of them? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 605144 | 2007-10-25 09:29:00 | make sure all the settings on the 3 machines are the same, what have you shared? folders or entire drives? what operating system is each computer running? is easiest to get working if they are all running the same one. if its winXP use the wizard on each one maybe the disk it wants you to create as well. when you say they can see each other, im assuming that you can see each one in the network'd computers folder thing. or can you just ping each one? |
Cho (12330) | ||
| 605145 | 2007-10-25 10:05:00 | Not really Cho, OS makes little difference, XP can be easily (and quite happily) made to play with Win95, Linux, Vista, Server... I wouldnt go straight away and say the firewalls blocking something, but rather start with expanding on what you mean by "not allow my pc's to read data even though they can see each other". First off, disable the firewall on ALL of them. See if it works. If it doesnt, leave the firewall off until it works, then restart your PC and take it from there.. get it working without the firewall so you dont have to be worrying about it cutting you down and blocking things. It could be a permissions problem for all we know. Do you get any specific error messages, such as Permission denied? When they "see" each other, what do you mean? In Network Neighbourhood? Can you access the shared drives but just not write to them? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 605146 | 2007-10-25 19:44:00 | well two machines run xp home and the other one xp pro, when in my network places on the home machines I can view workgroup computers and all 3 show up but access is denied. The pro pc will not let me even see any workgroup computers though it says access denied if I try to see the workgroup. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 605147 | 2007-10-25 19:54:00 | As they said, turn zonealarm off on all three machines and see if the network works as you wish it to. Then you can turn zonelarm back on and configure it to work for your network. I had major hassles with my network till i did this. Regards Digby |
Digby (677) | ||
| 605148 | 2007-10-25 20:32:00 | xp can be a hassle to network. since xp home and pro do it slightly differently. could be wrong though. and yes i have noticed that i can be a pain when using different windows os's since xp has so called "security" going between xp and linux on the other hand is really basic. can't remember exactly but i think that you may need the same users on each machine, although have not had that issue. disabling the firewalls will help see where the problem is. either with the firewalls or windows itself. i usually take the cheats way out and run an ftp server to get around widows not playing nice with other windows pc's. digby seems to be onto it though :) |
Cho (12330) | ||
| 605149 | 2007-10-25 22:26:00 | Firstly thanks for everyones help, the answer was to add the IP address range into Zonealarm and then to add each Subnet individually as well and now it works perfectly. Hope this will help others as well | gary67 (56) | ||
| 605150 | 2007-10-26 04:59:00 | Have found this to be useful www.networkmagic.com |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 605151 | 2007-10-26 07:49:00 | Whats wrong with xps firewall? at3 |
Ho Chi Minh (11121) | ||
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