Question About My Network Places

[Michael Meyers]

My family has a home LAN, 1 PC is XP Pro and 2 are XP Home. No issues with the
LAN itself. All PC's can access the internet, and all PC's can access each
other's shared folders.

When My Network Places is opened on each PC and icons are arranged by "Network
Location", the local shares on that PC show up under "Local Network", whereas
the shares on the 2 other PC's show up under "The Internet". I have tried
deleting these shortcuts and re-creating them, but the shares on the other 2
networked PC's always show up under "The Internet".

Is this normal behavior?

 

[Chuck [MVP]]

My family has a home LAN, 1 PC is XP Pro and 2 are XP Home. No issues with the
LAN itself. All PC's can access the internet, and all PC's can access each
other's shared folders.

When My Network Places is opened on each PC and icons are arranged by "Network
Location", the local shares on that PC show up under "Local Network", whereas
the shares on the 2 other PC's show up under "The Internet". I have tried
deleting these shortcuts and re-creating them, but the shares on the other 2
networked PC's always show up under "The Internet".

Is this normal behavior?

Michael,

We've seen this happen occasionally. Generally, it's caused by a zone oriented
personal firewall, maybe Norton / Symantec or Zone Alarm, configured so the
computers in question show up in the Internet Zone.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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actual address pchuck mvps org.

 

[Michael Meyers]

Michael,

We've seen this happen occasionally. Generally, it's caused by a zone oriented
personal firewall, maybe Norton / Symantec or Zone Alarm, configured so the
computers in question show up in the Internet Zone.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html

I am in fact running ZoneAlarm Pro on all 3 PC's, but they are all in the
"Trusted Zone" of the firewall. This is required for file and printer sharing
to work properly, which it does.