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I do not speak Microsoft so if I use any terms which are not quite
correct please make allowances.
I purchased a new laptop on Friday which includes Norton Firewall. The
machine came preconfigured with Windows XP (Version 5.2 with service
Pack 2) installed.
I set the machine up to access my home network which includes other
machines in an MSHOME work group and to route through the firewall
router to the Internet. All this worked as I expected.
On Sunday I ran the Norton stuff to configure it and start the licence.
Monkey sees monkey does.
Since then when booted in normal mode the machine can still access the
Internet and intranet for the web, but it can not access the work group
MSHOME. Nor can the other machines in the group access its shared
directories. If I boot it into safe mode with network then it works as
one would expect with .
It must be something in the firewall software but even when I turn it
off, when the machine is booted into standard mode it can not access MSHOME.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong?
How do I tell what Norton thinks is my local area network. Does it work
work it out from the IP address and the netmask or is there a setting I
need to set?
An additional question on the Firewall. When I go into the "Security
Center" the Firewall menu item says "ON" but when I follow the link to
"Windows Firewall" the window "Windows Firewall" says it is off. Is this
normal behaviour for these windows under XP?
I do not speak Microsoft so if I use any terms which are not quite
correct please make allowances.
I purchased a new laptop on Friday which includes Norton Firewall. The
machine came preconfigured with Windows XP (Version 5.2 with service
Pack 2) installed.
I set the machine up to access my home network which includes other
machines in an MSHOME work group and to route through the firewall
router to the Internet. All this worked as I expected.
On Sunday I ran the Norton stuff to configure it and start the licence.
Monkey sees monkey does.
Since then when booted in normal mode the machine can still access the
Internet and intranet for the web, but it can not access the work group
MSHOME. Nor can the other machines in the group access its shared
directories. If I boot it into safe mode with network then it works as
one would expect with .
It must be something in the firewall software but even when I turn it
off, when the machine is booted into standard mode it can not access MSHOME.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong?
How do I tell what Norton thinks is my local area network. Does it work
work it out from the IP address and the netmask or is there a setting I
need to set?
An additional question on the Firewall. When I go into the "Security
Center" the Firewall menu item says "ON" but when I follow the link to
"Windows Firewall" the window "Windows Firewall" says it is off. Is this
normal behaviour for these windows under XP?