Hi, i dont often post in networking forums, as my forte is in offline and Win XP support i feel, but i've been having problems recently with file sharing within our home network. The setup is 3 desktops, 2 with lan connections to an ADSL router, and mine which is on a wireless connection to the router. We can all get onto the internet, but none of us currently can get onto Shared network folders. We get the following error:
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\\(computer)\(folder shared) is not accessible. YOu might not have permission to use this network rescource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
The network path was not found
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One of the lan pcs and the wireless one have Zone alarm(free edition) and the main pc will also have this later.
I have tried several things, such as pinging the two other pcs and i got a response from both with 0% loss on the packets.
I then procceded to uninstall zonealarm and i could access the shared folders on one of the pcs(didnt try the other)
Obviously, no firewall isnt safe, especially as we are all internet connected. Any ideas on how, in Zone alarm, i can allow the specific IP addresses of these other two computers, and the same on the other two, as i think this will work.
Cheers