On Sat April 3 2010, you wrote: > The local firewall is (should be) off when this laptop is on the > internal network at the church where the preschool is located. The > firewall was off on both her user account and my admin account when > logged in to the domain from this laptop the last time I tested > anything last week. I built all the boxes on the network and this is > the only laptop, all the others are desk workstations. All machines > were built from scratch on bare drives - no upgrades here. All done > with Open License Media and church owned Open License keys. (Charity > pricing is wonderful - they have a great network with a minimal > investment into licensing) > > Thanks for the thoughts. I'm going to need to look over the laptop again > before I make any changes and I'll check the firewall again. That piece > of work will have to wait until next week. I also have a new piece of > software to install as soon as it gets here. Probably be here mid week > next week. > I'll be the first to admit that I don't know Windows 7 as well as some here do, but IIRC, even if you have the firewall set to "off" it's still on unless you go in and disable the service entirely. Check the vipre network install instructions for how to disable it entirely. Windows 7 makes it MUCH harder to disable the firewall than any previous version of Windows.
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