Windows XP (Pro) SP2 Firewall

[Guest]

HELP! I have a small home network setup.
One Desktop for me, one dektop for my two girls,
a laptop for work, my wife's laptop, and my son's laptop for college work.

All in "WORKGROUP" connected through wireless Verizon FIOS broadband
router.
I had Zone Alarm FREE as the firewall.
I also have CAI Anti-Virus.

Both CAI Anti-Virus and Zone Alarm FREE needed an update.
One of them (can not recall which) would not play nice with the other, said
I needed to disable/turn-off.

So, I turned off and ultimately uninstalled Zone-Alarm (I believe it was
ZA's update that was the culprit.) And I turned on Windows Firewall.

NPW, when I go down to My Network Places, Entire network, MS Windows Network
- I can see the WORKGROUP, but I can NOT see any of the connected computers!
When I try to select WORKGROUP: "ERROR", it says that I am not authorized.

How to get Windows Firewall to allow home networking?

 

[pvdg42]

HELP! I have a small home network setup.
One Desktop for me, one dektop for my two girls,
a laptop for work, my wife's laptop, and my son's laptop for college work.

All in "WORKGROUP" connected through wireless Verizon FIOS broadband
router.
I had Zone Alarm FREE as the firewall.
I also have CAI Anti-Virus.

Both CAI Anti-Virus and Zone Alarm FREE needed an update.
One of them (can not recall which) would not play nice with the other,
said
I needed to disable/turn-off.

So, I turned off and ultimately uninstalled Zone-Alarm (I believe it was
ZA's update that was the culprit.) And I turned on Windows Firewall.

NPW, when I go down to My Network Places, Entire network, MS Windows
Network
- I can see the WORKGROUP, but I can NOT see any of the connected
computers!
When I try to select WORKGROUP: "ERROR", it says that I am not
authorized.

How to get Windows Firewall to allow home networking?

You need to ask this question in a group for Windows XP, not this .NET
programming group.
I'm crossposting this to an appropriate group for you.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I couldn't find from drop-down, an XP specific, and thought I was in
an XP General subject. Where did it get cross-posted to? And will i still
get notified of replies? (New to forum- obviously!)

 

[pvdg42]

Sorry, I couldn't find from drop-down, an XP specific, and thought I was
in
an XP General subject. Where did it get cross-posted to? And will i
still
get notified of replies? (New to forum- obviously!)

I crossposted it to:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web

The group should appear near the bottom of your scroll-down list, along with
other groups for Windows XP and Vista.

Hopefully, readers in the network_web group will send their replies to both
groups so you can see them in either group.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

I crossposted it to:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web

The group should appear near the bottom of your scroll-down list, along
with other groups for Windows XP and Vista.

Hopefully, readers in the network_web group will send their replies to
both groups so you can see them in either group.

Well, the person should enable the File and Print Sharing Exception FW rule
on the XP FW, use Google and look it up on how to use the XP Exception
Firewall rules.

The person should be posting to a FW NG like comp.security.firewalls.