Re: My Wireless Sharing Problem -- Specifics

"John Navas" <spamfilter0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
I don't know why this is, but XP machines with personal firewalls enabled
that can normally be accessed via the wire CANNOT, in most instances, be
accessed via wireless. Call me full of shit, but I've seen it many times.
Firewall the router -- not the PC. It's cheaper to just do the router
firewall than to do several machines.

Others perhaps, but I've never seen that problem with the Windows XP
Firewall. That said, I always disable firewalls while troubleshooting
_any_ networking problem.

Have you ever fiddled with McAfee's Personal Firewall? It has a range of IP addresses you can set that it will "trust" as far as inbound and outbound connections are concerned. It works nice on wired networks. But there is something about a wireless network that makes it completely flake out. When it detects the network, it will pop up a window asking if you "trust this network?" You select yes and you think all will be cool. But in my experience, about 8 times out of 10, it just won't let that machine share files and printers. Another common troubleshooting problem is that by default McAfee disables ICMP (for PING) on whatever machine it's installed.

Bang Bang

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