Re: Norton Personal Firewall 2003, map network drive

From: Vassilis (vantipas_at_central.ntua.gr)
Date: 07/26/03 

Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 02:07:45 +0300

maybe my message was not clear.

1st time: my firewall was on.
my friend was not able to connect.

2nd time: my firewall was off.
my friend was able to connect.

3rd time: my firewall was on (<----).
my friend was able to connect (<----).

Why?

"Jeff Umbach" <jeff@theserverpos.com> wrote in message
news:fYgUa.25569$BM.8293005@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com...
> It's rather obvious, the firewall is doing it's job by not responding to
his
> connection attempts. If you want to use a firewall and allow people to
> connect to your file shares, then you will need to do some configuration.
>
> --
> Jeff Umbach
> "Vassilis" <vantipas@central.ntua.gr> wrote in message
> news:bfr9gi$1es6$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr...
> > hello, I use Norton Personal Firewall 2003.
> > Windows 2000 Prof., my computer is inside
> > a university's lab.
> >
> > When firewall was enable:
> > A friend tried to find my IP throught Map
> > Networking and he was not possible to find it.
> >
> > When I disabled my firewall:
> > he tried again to find my IP. He found it and
> > asked for a username and password in order
> > to connect to my share drive D:
> >
> > After this I turned on my firewall:
> > My friend tried again to find my IP. But now
> > he was able to find it (when Firewall was: enable).
> >
> > What happened?
> >
> >
>
>

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