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TonyH
I now have a small network of computers running XP Home
SP2. There is a hardware firewall built into the router
on the cable modem side. By default, the SP2 firewall
excepts File and Printer Sharing between machines on the
local subnet which is fine. However, one of
the machines also has a dial-up connection to the
Internet in case the broadband connection
goes down. I would prefer it if File and Printer Sharing
ports were blocked completely when accessing the Internet
via the dial-up connection.
So far, the only way I've found of doing this is to
remove the File and Print Sharing ports from the
SP2 firewall exception list, disabling the firewall on
each of connections to the router, while leaving the
firewall on for the modem connection, and turning off
firewall monitoring in the SP2 Security Centre.
Is there any other way of achieving this that does not
involve turning off the firewall monitoring?
Tony
SP2. There is a hardware firewall built into the router
on the cable modem side. By default, the SP2 firewall
excepts File and Printer Sharing between machines on the
local subnet which is fine. However, one of
the machines also has a dial-up connection to the
Internet in case the broadband connection
goes down. I would prefer it if File and Printer Sharing
ports were blocked completely when accessing the Internet
via the dial-up connection.
So far, the only way I've found of doing this is to
remove the File and Print Sharing ports from the
SP2 firewall exception list, disabling the firewall on
each of connections to the router, while leaving the
firewall on for the modem connection, and turning off
firewall monitoring in the SP2 Security Centre.
Is there any other way of achieving this that does not
involve turning off the firewall monitoring?
Tony