Re: Windows 2000 Professional / Norton Personal Firewall 2004 / File & Printer Sharing

From: NeoSadist (neosad1st_at_charter.net)
Date: 12/10/03


Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:47:25 -0700

been wrote:

> OS: Windows 2000 Professional
> Product: Norton Personal Firewall 2004
> Problem: File and Printer sharing does not work with firewall
> enabled.
>
> What I've done:
> 1) RTFM
> 2) RTFWS
> 3) Added other computers to the Trusted Network list individually.
> 4) Added entire network to Trusted Network list
> 5) Added a range of IPs to Trusted Network list.
> 6) Changed Netbios, Netbios Name and Windows File Sharing rules to permit.
> 7) Added other computers to the Netbios, Netbios name and Windows File
> Sharing rule permit list individually.
> 8) Added entire network to the Netbios, Netbios name and Windows File
> Sharing rule permit list.
> 9) Added a range of IPs to the Netbios, Netbios name and Windows File
> Sharing rule permist list.
>
> Outcome of what I've done:
>
> It seems that once I make any of these changes I am able to access shares
> existing on other computers from this computer. However, upon reboot I am
> no longer able to access those shares without disabling the firewall. At
> this point I checked the settings to ensure they were still listed
> properly and they were.
>
> Symantec's support pages are about as helpful as a pile of crap. Its
> another one of those "if it doesn't work properly we don't support it
> sites".
>
> Anyone have any ideas cause I'm fresh out?

I think you've already done what I would have. However, contact Symantec
for a support request and MAKE them help you.
Also, I'll state this one more time just for the heck of it. The rules
should state:

"Allow Networking"
Allow
TCP AND UDP
Ports: 135-139 and 445
IP range 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.255

That's very broad, but it should work fine that way.

-- 
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                -- Isaac Asimov


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