I don't believe in over-complicating things. Firewalls give me nothing but grief at work, I don't need them doing it at home too. Although I suppose I'd have even more grief at work if we switched them off...
I'm really pissed off that Dell included a firewall, switched on, in their software when they must know perfectly well that Windows comes with a firewall supplied. Having 2 software firewalls on one box is a recipe for grief. For non-IT users it's not an obvious thing to look for and would cause them real trouble getting networking going. It's wasted several hours of my time, and I'm an IT professional. Bob > > I'm a "belt and suspenders" person when it comes to > firewalls. Why not use both the NAT on the router and the > Windows firewall and set up a firewall exception on the boxes > if they don't see each other? > > -p > > On 5/23/2010 10:59 AM, Bob W wrote: > > Well, I always switch the Windows firewall off on my > machines - I have > > ahardware firewall in the router to keep stuff out of the network. > > What seems to have made things difficult is that Dell also put a > > software firewall on the new box. Switching that off seems to have > > done the trick to get the XP and Win 7 boxes aware of each > other. To > > make the NAS device visible I had to downgrade the security > on Win 7 > > slightly. How non-IT people ever managebaffles me. All I have to do > > now is get Lightroom on the Win 7 box to import pictures on the NAS > > device from a catalogue on the XP box... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
