How to have a firewall that will allow printing and file sharing on home network

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J. M. Anderson

I have just installed Service Pack 2 for Win XP Pro.

I have tried everything I can see (exceptions, etc) to
have the firewall allow printing and file sharing across
my home network - all to no avail. With the firewall ON,
the old machine cannot access the XP machine. Only with
the firewall OFF does it work.

DO I HAVE TO DISABLE THE FIREWALL TO MAINTAIN MY
NETWORK? Is there no way to have the firewall and still
have my network? (There is a check by printer and file
sharing, but it still doesn't work.)

Do you know what I am saying? Or did I not say it in an
understandable way?

J. M. Anderson
 
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