XP Firewall & Linksys WMA11B Media Adapter

[Guest]

I purchased a Linksys media adapter (wma11b) and connected it on my wireless
network (I know...i should have a media center pc instead, but cost is a
factor at the moment). In order for it to connect to my XP Home SP2 pc I
have to disable the windows firewall. After contacting Linksys to find out
what to add to the exceptions list in xp, they informed me " no, you need to
disable the Windows firewall to use our product...you do not need it on".

OK, I'm no dummy (am I ?). I have a DLink DI-624 router with firewall type
services on it, but should I not have XP firewall ENABLED for best protection?

How in the world can Linksys say I don't need it and to disable it...or am i
crazy and really should disable it?

I'd really like some comments back. Just seems strange to me. You'd think
Linksys would make their products 100% compatible with Microsoft.

Thanks

 

[Jim]

I purchased a Linksys media adapter (wma11b) and connected it on my
wireless
network (I know...i should have a media center pc instead, but cost is a
factor at the moment). In order for it to connect to my XP Home SP2 pc I
have to disable the windows firewall. After contacting Linksys to find
out
what to add to the exceptions list in xp, they informed me " no, you need
to
disable the Windows firewall to use our product...you do not need it on".

OK, I'm no dummy (am I ?). I have a DLink DI-624 router with firewall
type
services on it, but should I not have XP firewall ENABLED for best
protection?

How in the world can Linksys say I don't need it and to disable it...or am
i
crazy and really should disable it?

I'd really like some comments back. Just seems strange to me. You'd
think
Linksys would make their products 100% compatible with Microsoft.

Thanks

What they should have said is that you do not need two firewalls on one
computer. The Windows firewall on checks incoming traffic, but most people
feel more comfortable with a product which checks incoming and outcoming
traffic. So, you never need to enable the Windows firewall because it is
only half effective.
Jim

 

[Guest]

What they should have said is that you do not need two firewalls on one
computer. The Windows firewall on checks incoming traffic, but most people
feel more comfortable with a product which checks incoming and outcoming
traffic. So, you never need to enable the Windows firewall because it is
only half effective.
Jim

Thanks...I should probably get a 3rd party firewall then and use that as my
in/out security.

Thanks for the reply.
Jabin

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You would not need to enable the XP Windows Firewall unless you have a need
to protect computers on your network from each other which sometimes is the
case. Many enterprise networks enable XP Windows Firewall even though they
are protected by a perimeter firewall. --- Steve