Filesharing impossible with a firewall?

[oceancyc]

I was trying to setup a media server for the housesold using an old pc. I hooked it up to my Linksys WRT54G with an ethernet cable. My regular pc is also hooked up this way. I was able so setup workgroups and give permissions to the folders I want shared. But the only way I can get the two XP Pro boxes to access eachother is to turn off Zonelarm on both of them. Is this normal or am I missing something obvious?

 

[Nocturnal]

With regular Zone Alarm, yes, you are probably never going to get it to work properly. With Zone Alarm Pro, I believe this particular version of ZA works with file sharing amongsts networked computers. I learned the hard way too. You should be rather safe behind your hardware/router firewall and if you use SP2's firewall.

 

[kami333]

Have you tried adding the computers into the trusted zone?

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: kami333
Have you tried adding the computers into the trusted zone?

I've tried that myself and people on this very forum have said it's almost impossible.

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: kami333
Have you tried adding the computers into the trusted zone?

I've tried that myself and people on this very forum have said it's almost impossible.

Interesting. I use ZA on all my computers and don't have this problem. I'll have to check how I have it setup.

 

[faZZter]

I am using ZA pro and I have a media storage that I can access from all computers..........maybe you need the pro version?

(My media is stored on a Netgear NAS unit)