Re: Installed Zone Alarm: Internet Connection Sharing not working

From: Gregg Cattanach (gcattanach-SKIP-_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:16:07 GMT

"Jeff Lord" <jefflord@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:S-ydnYrYQK424-fcRVn-3g@adelphia.com...
> Gregg Cattanach wrote:
>> I disabled the WindowsXP Firewall and have installed ZoneAlarm on both my
>> desktop and laptop machines. I can ping and share files between the two
>> machines, but Internet connection sharing isn't working. The desktop
>> connects to the Internet via dial-up, and when connected I even see the
>> icon on the laptop in the tray for the Internet Gateway dialup
>> connection, but I can't access any website from the laptop. When I try
>> to it prompts for a phone number to dial-out with the modem. I've tried
>> rerunning the Network Setup Wizard on both machines to no avail.
>>
>> I'm guessing there is something else I need to set in ZoneAlarm, but I
>> don't know what.
>>
>> This is just a simple wired network through a router.
>>
>> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>>
>>
>
> It may be just needing to adding your internal addresses to the Zones in
> the Firewall tab in ZoneAlarm's control panel. I don't use the Internet
> Gateway option but I'm thinking that Zone Alarm installed you the desktop
> is set up with only the zone for the address that you got from your dialup
> provider.
>

That sounds like the right idea, but I'm still not exactly sure what you are
suggesting. What are "the internal addresses" you are referring to? The
two IP address assigned to each machine are already there. Remember I sad
that file sharing works just fine between the two machines. 

-- 
Gregg C.

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