Help with ICS and Zone Alarm 2.6 - ZA Blocking access from my other comps

[The Dancing Peacock]

Hi,

Just got a cable modem from RR and I'm trying to network the 3 computers we have here. Yesterday, I was able to set up ICS with Zone Alarm running on my machine. I spent last night reinstalling Win2K cuz it was being freaky. Today, when I try to share the connection and use Zone Alarm, ZA blocks the access from that computer. In ZA I've even gone into the Advanced settings in the Security Settings and added the NAT address of the computers so that ZA will know that they are part of the local Zone....

The ICS works fine when ZA is turned off. I don't want to not use a firewall system, b/c I've already been probed this morning.

Now that I've added it as a local machine, ZA pops up alerts saying that it is blocking access from my computer to xyz.com (HTTP)

What do I do, is it Service Pack 2 that changed things? I installed it last night cuz I figured it was a good idea, but it doesn't want to work now. The client machines are w98 and win2K. Do I need to add more than just the IP address in the Advanced section? I turn on ZA, the computers cant connect, off and they work just fine....ARGH....


Thanks.

TDP

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Zone Alarm Tech Support kicks ass. I emailed them when I posted this and an hour and forty minutes later, they had already replied with the answer. This is free software too.

I guess maybe I should have played around with it more, instead of going the easy route and asking how to fix it. I didn't have much time to work on it, trying to find a job.
The solution, was so dumb that I didn't even try it. I had to set the Internet Security level to Medium. 😱 😀


late.

TDP