Loose network workgroup access with XP firewall activated

[Guest]

I changed my settings to activate the built in firewall in WINXP home and found that my connection to my office workgroup was lost. As soon as I deactivated the firewall, I had access again. Do I need to change another setting to maintain the firewall and still have access to the workgroup? Thank you for inforamtion regarding this issue.

 

[Delwin Lee [MSFT]]

What "connection" is being lost? For instance, turning on the firewall will
prevent other machines on the workgroup to access file and printer shares.

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I changed my settings to activate the built in firewall in WINXP home and

found that my connection to my office workgroup was lost. As soon as I
deactivated the firewall, I had access again. Do I need to change another
setting to maintain the firewall and still have access to the workgroup?
Thank you for inforamtion regarding this issue.

 

[Guest]

The "connection" I loose is to the other computers in the network. I have since turned off the firewall and find that I get the "workgroup" computers to show in my network. Since the computers on on a network via a router with a firewall anyway, should I just leave the XP firewall off? Thanks.