Re: stand alone firewalls

I tried to run ipconfig, a window popped up briefly and then closed. I
tried running ipconfig on my other computers and the same thing happened. It
doesn't give me time to even look for an ip address....thanks for the
help...tom


"Philip Herlihy" <foof8501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hard to advise without a lot more detail!
>
> In general - set your computers to pick up an IP address, etc,
> automatically, and then they will all end up on the same "subnet".
> Disable PC-based firewalls for now.
>
> Reboot the PCs and then run "ipconfig" in a command prompt to see what IP
> addresses they have picked up. Try pinging one from the other.
> eg: ping a.b.c.d - replacing letters with numbers you got from ipconfig.
>
> Once you can ping, you can create file shares on one, and map network
> drives on the other. You do both from within windows explorer.
>
> If you always run your machines behind a hardware firewall, then you
> probably don't need a software firewall, except that they can alert you to
> the fact that something is running on your machine and making outgoing
> connections. I do use software firewalls.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
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> ## PH, London
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> "Tom C.." <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I have a D-Link DI 524 wireless router. Is it necessary for me to have a
>>Norton or Zone Alarm firewall also? It seems when i have the stand alone
>>firewall, my computers on the network can't see each other. I know there
>>are some ranges of ip addesses that i can put into the stand alones, but
>>so far i havnt had much luck with that. I admit i don't know all i need to
>>know about wireless netowrking...thanks for the help...tom
>>
>
>


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