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Tip, make sure you check your firewall software
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Tip, make sure you check your firewall software
Monday, November 5, 2001 at 11:12 am
Posted by jeff wilkinson (7 messages posted)

I have a suggestion about Getting Network Neighborhood to recognize newly attached computers:

If you have zonealarm or some other firewall software installed in one or more of the computers, you may need to tell it that that the others are in local lans. This treats them as more trusted than machines on the internet and lets the machine respond to more ports and protocols. If you don't do this, network neighborhood may not see other local machines.

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re: Tip, make sure you check your firewall software
Tuesday, November 6, 2001 at 11:01 pm
Posted by Ron (1 messages posted)

Hi Jeff I have ZoneAlarm installed on both computers and could not get either computer to recognize the other until I shut down ZoneAlarm on both. I am sure I have ZoneAlarm correctly setup. The only setting I thought may have been the problem was in Securtity where I unchecked the box 'Block Local Servers' on both machines. Do you know of any other setting that may need to be changed? Thanks. Ron

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re: Tip, make sure you check your firewall software
Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 9:02 pm
Posted by jeff wilkinson (7 messages posted)

I went to Security settings, clicked the Advanced button, and checked the box next to my LAN card to tell it to consider that a local zone. I don't think I added the other PC explicitly.

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re: Tip, make sure you check your firewall software
Wednesday, January 9, 2002 at 1:21 pm
Posted by GothicTigger (1 messages posted)


>I have ZoneAlarm installed on both computers and could not get either computer to 
>recognize the other until I shut down ZoneAlarm on both. I am sure I have  ZoneAlarm 
>correctly setup. The only setting I thought may have been the problem was in Securtity 
>where I unchecked the box 'Block Local Servers' on both machines. Do you know of 
>any other setting that may need to be changed? Thanks.


Press the advanced button in the Security section.  Now add both the IP Numbers and 
the Subnet Numbers for both machines. 

You can find this info by typing in IPCONFIG at the command prompt...

I had to work this out today :)  I am not sure that it is the most elegant solution 
but it works !!

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