Samsung Allshare and Firewall

[Ketchup]

I have been using the Samsung Allshare application for a month or so, and overall I am pretty happy with it. My wife and I love being able to watch old videos of the kids by simply pressing a few buttons on the remote.

Happy until yesterday, that is, because for some reason, I decided to look in the help menu. It was there I discovered that the program insists you turn off any firewalls, as the program will not work correctly with them on.

Now, I have not had any issues as of yet, (that I know of) but I am concerned that I am watching my own home movies wide open for all to see.

I am wondering if it will still function if I can block it inside the windows firewall app. I only use it to send information from the desktop to the blu-ray player through the router, so outside connectivity should not even be needed.

Anybody have other recommendations? Should I go to another program? We are getting spoiled being able to listen to music and watch videos so easily, but I don't want to do so at the cost of security.

 

[Ketchup]

Update, I spent some time with it over the weekend and believe it to be set up the best way possible.

I moved the application to my home server and set the server to have a static IP and subnet address, with no default gateway or DNS address. So the server only communicates with my home network, and I don't have to worry about external sources. firewall or not (assuming the router is impenetrable).

Maybe someone will find this info helpful.