Disable ZoneAlarm on Netorked Machines?

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Melvin Cotterill

Hello;
I have a LAN home network with one XP machine and two ME machines. All
machines have NIC cards cabled to the Internet via a Netgear RT 314 router
and DSL modem. All machines can communicate with the Internet, but can not
communicate with each other. I posted this problem earlier and was told to
disable the ZoneAlarm firewalls on all machines. I am "virus paranoid", thus
hesitant to try this solution.Is this a good solution? Can you recommend a
solution? Thanks for all the help and advice.
 
ZoneAlarm only works against hacker activity so it's
doing very little to protect you from viruses right now
anyway. You can temporarily disable it and if you can
access the other PCs, then you just need to tell ZA to
allow traffic from the other PCs IP addresses....
 
Hello Nathan;
Thanks for the response. If I understand it correctly, you are saying there
is a built firewall protection in the Netgear router. How do I modify
ZoneAlarm to permit traffic from certain IP addresses? Thanks.
((((((melvin)))))))
 
Hello;
I have a LAN home network with one XP machine and two ME machines. All
machines have NIC cards cabled to the Internet via a Netgear RT 314 router
and DSL modem. All machines can communicate with the Internet, but can not
communicate with each other. I posted this problem earlier and was told to
disable the ZoneAlarm firewalls on all machines. I am "virus paranoid", thus
hesitant to try this solution.Is this a good solution? Can you recommend a
solution? Thanks for all the help and advice.
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Hi

You don't need to disable ZA on any of the PCs, try adding the LAN subnet
(192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0) to your trusted zone and see if that fixes it.

If that doesn't work post again.

Regards

Bill
 
Hello Phoenix;
Thanks for the information. I do not know how to perform the operation you
suggest. What are the necessary commands. I know how to ping and that is
about it. My ignorance co-efficient approaches infinity with respect to
networking. By the way I did disable ZoneAlarm on all my machines and it
made difference one way or the other.
Thanks for further help.
((((((((((melvin)))))))))))))
 
Hello Phoenix;
Thanks for the information. I do not know how to perform the operation you
suggest. What are the necessary commands. I know how to ping and that is
about it. My ignorance co-efficient approaches infinity with respect to
networking. By the way I did disable ZoneAlarm on all my machines and it
made difference one way or the other.
Thanks for further help.
((((((((((melvin)))))))))))))
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Hi

How did you disable ZA? If you just shutdown the systray gui then that's
not the correct method. What you need to do is go into the GUI and on the
Overview/Preferences tab uncheck the 'Load ZA at startup' option then
reboot your PC. Do that for all the PCs on your LAN and tell me what
happens, your LAN *should* be working OK. If the LAN works then while ZA is
disabled I suggest you delete the rules database. You will need to go to
the \Internet Logs folder (under your \WINDOWS directory) and delete *all*
the files in there (keep and *.txt log files you may want) the restart ZA.
You will need to authorise all your programs again or put ZA in 'Learn'
mode (Program Control/Main tab and move the slider to Low) for a couple of
days, you'll also need to check the 'Load ZA at startup' option again. That
should get you working again.

HTH

Regards

Bill
 
Hello;
I finally uninstalled ZoneAlarm entirely from all machines. This did not
help. I had no problems communication between machines when all ran under
ME. The problem began when I upgraded my machine to Win XP Pro. In
desperation I am going to uninstall XP and run the Network with all machines
on ME. Thanks for all the help and encouragement. I hereby, "give up the
ghost", so to speak. I am defeated.
((((((((((((melvin)))))))))))))))))
 
Hello;
I finally uninstalled ZoneAlarm entirely from all machines. This did not
help. I had no problems communication between machines when all ran under
ME. The problem began when I upgraded my machine to Win XP Pro. In
desperation I am going to uninstall XP and run the Network with all machines
on ME. Thanks for all the help and encouragement. I hereby, "give up the
ghost", so to speak. I am defeated.
((((((((((((melvin)))))))))))))))))
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You didn't, by any chance, still have the XP firewall enabled did you? That
will also cause you problems.

Regards

Bill
 
Hello;
Thanks for taking all the time to help me. Your suggestion worked for me.
((((((((((((((((melvin)))))))))))))))
 
Hello;
Thanks for taking all the time to help me. Your suggestion worked for me.
((((((((((((((((melvin)))))))))))))))

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It's my pleasure to help, glad you're sorted. :-)

Regards

Bill
 
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