Author: Harald Faber
Date: 02:09:01 03/23/04
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On March 23, 2004 at 01:58:59, Nick Rowe wrote: > I have not had zone alarm turned on in forever and a day but i new that it >changed settings on the system - i went and activated it and then turned on >event monitoring and boom network established- crazy but if it works... These bloody firewalls are often the reason why lan and sometimes internet does not work properly. >>On March 22, 2004 at 13:16:08, Nick Rowe wrote: >> >>>On March 22, 2004 at 05:52:37, Harald Faber wrote: >>> >>>>On March 22, 2004 at 00:40:17, Nick Rowe wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have recently gotten a second computer and have wanted to network the two >>>>>computers. One of the computers is connected to my router wirelessly(computer >>>>>A) and the other cmputer is hard wired(computer B). The hard wired computer(B) >>>>>can see and access files on the wireless computer(A). The wireless computer(A) >>>>>can see the wired computer(B), but can not access it or files. Both computers >>>>>have sharing activated. >>>>> >>>>>If i ever get this to work can programs play each other directly through a >>>>>network? >>>>> >>>>>Thanks >>>> >>>>Do you have Windows XP and the firewall active? Or another firewall? >>>> >>> >>>No Firewalls. It just seems as if the wireless pc just doesn't have acess >>>priveleges of anysort ven though it sees and can ping the hard wired computer. >>> >> >>Two more hints: >>a) Consider the ip adresses. Did you set them manually, if so, which ips do you >>use, which does the wlan router provide for dhcp e.g.? >>b) Remember that usually on the Win XP machine you have to have an admin account >>with the same name as with which name you are logged in on the other computer >>and try to connect to the XP computer.
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