Problem with Zonealarm and XP

[al]

I am hopig someon here can help me out. I have a laptop and desktop
both runnning windows XP. I have set up a home network (with XP
wizard) to create a workgroup. I have Zonealarm (free verison 4.5)
installed on the desktop. Due to this I have disabled firewall
protection on the Windows side. When Zonealarm is enabled the
computers cannot communicate or see shares. I cannot even ping from
the laptop to the desktop. However, when Zoneaarm is disabled
everything works as it should. I have added the laptop as a trusted
host in the zone on the desktop but this is not working. Anyone know
how to resolve this. I want to continue to run Zonealarm as I am
using a wireless network and want all the protection I can get.
Thanks for the help.

 

[Guest]

I also have a laptop and a desktop both using XP and zone alarm version 4.5.530. They are presently connected via a wireless router to a DSl Modem. The router is acting as a DHCP server so I have set both copies of zone alarm to allow traffic from the IP range of the DHCP server. This works and I can share everything.

prior to setting up the wireless router I connected the machines via a 10/100 hub and put the ip address of the opposing system into the zonealarm and again it worked.

The only difficulty I am having is that I want to point both my systems to the same email folders using outlook express/tools /options/maintenance/store folder. However this does not sem to allow me to point to a folder on another system no mater how the drives are shared. This may not be possible but I would appreciate some help if anyone knows any way to do this.
----- al wrote: -----

I am hopig someon here can help me out. I have a laptop and desktop
both runnning windows XP. I have set up a home network (with XP
wizard) to create a workgroup. I have Zonealarm (free verison 4.5)
installed on the desktop. Due to this I have disabled firewall
protection on the Windows side. When Zonealarm is enabled the
computers cannot communicate or see shares. I cannot even ping from
the laptop to the desktop. However, when Zoneaarm is disabled
everything works as it should. I have added the laptop as a trusted
host in the zone on the desktop but this is not working. Anyone know
how to resolve this. I want to continue to run Zonealarm as I am
using a wireless network and want all the protection I can get.
Thanks for the help.

 

[JRC]

I am hopig someon here can help me out. I have a laptop and desktop
both runnning windows XP. I have set up a home network (with XP
wizard) to create a workgroup. I have Zonealarm (free verison 4.5)
installed on the desktop. Due to this I have disabled firewall
protection on the Windows side. When Zonealarm is enabled the
computers cannot communicate or see shares. I cannot even ping from
the laptop to the desktop. However, when Zoneaarm is disabled
everything works as it should. I have added the laptop as a trusted
host in the zone on the desktop but this is not working. Anyone know
how to resolve this. I want to continue to run Zonealarm as I am
using a wireless network and want all the protection I can get.
Thanks for the help.

Try using non routable IP's for the machines, then adding them to ZA
as trusted addresses.

JRC

 

[al]

How would you set the machines up as a non rotable IP. I added the
range pf addresses as the other user stated for the router with the
netmask, but it does not work. Any ideas?

 

[JRC]

How would you set the machines up as a non rotable IP. I added the
range pf addresses as the other user stated for the router with the
netmask, but it does not work. Any ideas?

Start here:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/

You should be able to find everything you need to know.

JRC