Configuring XP firewall for local sharing

[petro12]

Is there a way to configure a Windows XP firewall enabled on a LAN
interface so that I can still share (for read/write) my folders on the
local network ?

 

[Duane Arnold]

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Is there a way to configure a Windows XP firewall enabled on a LAN
interface so that I can still share (for read/write) my folders on the
local network ?

You open the Wnidows Networking Ports on XP. That's 137-138 UDP and 139 and
445 TCP to the IP/machine on the LAN that you want to share resouces.

http://www.sans.org/rr/papers/67/288.pdf

Duane

 

[Duane Arnold]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @posting.google.com:

Is there a way to configure a Windows XP firewall enabled on a LAN
interface so that I can still share (for read/write) my folders on the
local network ?

You open the Wnidows Networking Ports on XP. That's 137-138 UDP and 139 and
445 TCP to the IP/machine on the LAN that you want to share resouces.

http://www.sans.org/rr/papers/67/288.pdf

Duane

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Is there a way to configure a Windows XP firewall enabled on a LAN
interface so that I can still share (for read/write) my folders on the
local network ?

Activate the exception for File and Printer Sharing.

Hans-Georg

 

[David Wright Sr.]

Activate the exception for File and Printer Sharing.

Hans-Georg

In my experience, I had trouble with file sharing in a network with a
mixture of win98 and winXp Sp2. I can share any of the files TO the XP
system, but not vicey-versy. Trying to access the files on the XP from
the 98 system, I get a request for password that, so far, I have not
figured out. It's not any of the ones that I have assigned. I have
several briefcases that I used to keep certain files in sync, and they
will only work if the briefcase itself is located on the XP system.

Anybody experienced this and found out how to make it work. It's not
critical, but is annoying.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

In my experience, I had trouble with file sharing in a network with a
mixture of win98 and winXp Sp2. I can share any of the files TO the XP
system, but not vicey-versy. Trying to access the files on the XP from
the 98 system, I get a request for password that, so far, I have not
figured out. It's not any of the ones that I have assigned. I have
several briefcases that I used to keep certain files in sync, and they
will only work if the briefcase itself is located on the XP system.

Anybody experienced this and found out how to make it work. It's not
critical, but is annoying.

David,

please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm.

This problem is solvable.

Hans-Georg

 

[optikl]

In my experience, I had trouble with file sharing in a network with a
mixture of win98 and winXp Sp2. I can share any of the files TO the XP
system, but not vicey-versy. Trying to access the files on the XP from
the 98 system, I get a request for password that, so far, I have not
figured out. It's not any of the ones that I have assigned.

Have you set up a guest account on the XP machine and assigned it a
password? That works for me in my setup ( 1XPHome, 1 2000Pro, 1 98SE).

I have

several briefcases that I used to keep certain files in sync, and they
will only work if the briefcase itself is located on the XP system.

I don't use briefcases. I just setup a shared folder on each system and
transfer back and forth files I need to share.