I have sucessfully managed to get my Laptop and Desktop talking to each
other. Both use XP Home edition. The desktop has a cable modem to connect to
the Internet and I am usng Zone Alarm Firewall free version. My problem is
that I can only access the Internet or Outlook Express on the Laptop by
disabling Zone Alarm. I have searched through Zone Alarm for possible
options but have not found anything to overcome the problem. Help would be
very much appreciated.

"f4freda" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> I have sucessfully managed to get my Laptop and Desktop talking to
> each other. Both use XP Home edition. The desktop has a cable modem to
> connect to the Internet and I am usng Zone Alarm Firewall free
> version. My problem is that I can only access the Internet or Outlook
> Express on the Laptop by disabling Zone Alarm. I have searched
> through Zone Alarm for possible options but have not found anything to
> overcome the problem. Help would be very much appreciated.
>
>
>

have you added the ip addresses into the trusted zone of the Zone Alarm
firewall tab?

"tougharms" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "f4freda" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:5dyAe.4815$(E-Mail Removed):
>
> > I have sucessfully managed to get my Laptop and Desktop talking to
> > each other. Both use XP Home edition. The desktop has a cable modem to
> > connect to the Internet and I am usng Zone Alarm Firewall free
> > version. My problem is that I can only access the Internet or Outlook
> > Express on the Laptop by disabling Zone Alarm. I have searched
> > through Zone Alarm for possible options but have not found anything to
> > overcome the problem. Help would be very much appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
>
> have you added the ip addresses into the trusted zone of the Zone Alarm
> firewall tab?

Thank you Tougharms.
The following data appears in the trusted zone:
USB cable modem 351000-Packet scheduler miniport 82.5.15.22/255.255.255.0
VIA compatible fast ethernet adapter-Packet scheduler miniport
192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0
The USB cable modem is attached to the desktop. The VIA refers to the
laptop.
I can see the above addresses when run IPCONFIG on each computer.
So are these as they should be?