Re: File and Printer Sharing bug with Norton Personal Firewall 2004
From: NeoSadist (neosad1st_at_charter.net)
Date: 09/03/04
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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 09:47:41 -0600
mindshareware@yahoo.com wrote:
> Norton Personal Firewall 2004 File Sharing / File and Printer Sharing
> Bug. Yecchhh.
>
> Tried reading the manual, experimenting, etc. Tried on google. This
> guy has the same experience as me.
>
>
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=HZjBb.476678%24HS4.3697363%40attbi_s01&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522norton%2Bpersonal%2Bfirewall%2B2004%2522%2B%2522printer%2Bsharing%2522%26hl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3DHZjBb.476678%2524HS4.3697363%2540attbi_s01%26rnum%3D1
>
> He described the problem I was having, but no solution is given.
>
> I think I've finally figured it out.
>
> There is definitely 100% a File and Printer Sharing bug with Norton
> Personal Firewall 2004.
>
> I have File and Printer Sharing Configured with maximum permissiveness.
> I.E., start the firewall -->> click Personal Firewall -->> Advanced
> -->> General -->>Windows File Sharing -->> Permit Direction In/Out,
> Computers Any, Adapters Any, Communications Any, Protocol Tcp and Udp.
> This is on both computers, ie the shared and the computer that is
> trying to get into the shared camputer.
>
> But File and Printer Sharing does not work. But, if you turn the
> firewall off and on again, on both computers, it works.
>
> I then spent a ridiculous amount of time fiddling with the settings
> trying to figure out what was going on. It's not the settings. It's a
> Norton bug.
>
> Proof: Start the Firewall -->> click Personal Firwall -->> DON'T CHANGE
> ANY SETTINGS OR DO ANYTHING JUST SHUT ALL WINDOWS. On both computers,
> of course.
>
> Now File and Printer works.
>
> My recommendation: Use Sygate Personal Firewall, which does not have
> this bug. Unfortunately at work I have to use Norton, but this is a
> pretty serious bug to slip through the cracks and wasted a lot of my
> time. Shame on Norton!
1) Don't start with your "shame on Norton" bullkrap. If you do not fully
understand file and printer sharing on Windows platforms and do not fully
understand the concepts behind firewalls, who are you to start that?
2) File sharing works between Linux Samba servers and Windows XP, but it has
never worked with a firewall set up. Sure, a firewall is on my
router/gateway machine (Smoothwall 2.0 Linux), but not on the Samba
servers. The packets generated by file sharing end up looking sort of
weird, coming from all-broadcast (192.168.1.255), loopback (127.0.0.1),
etc. Bottom line is that file sharing from Windows platforms never works
like it is documented to, and any firewall configuration to allow it (i.e.
all ports in and out 135-139,445 ports tcp and udp) never work properly
with Windows. The fault, AFAIK, lies with Windows, so take your
firewall-ignorant self elsewhere: you don't know enough about firewalls or
file sharing to make your claims.
-- "A raccoon tangled with a 23,000 volt line today. The results blacked out 1400 homes and, of course, one raccoon." -- Steel City News
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