Wireless Networking With Zone Alarm

[Steve Mehs]

This afternoon I took a ride to Walmart and picked up a Motorola Wireless 802.11G Broadband Router and PCI Desktop Adaptor for my cable modem. The network is set up perfectly and I'm very pleased with the speeds and the Motorola control panel. My Windows 2000 machine will now basically be a MP3 server. The one problem is with Zone Alarm Pro running it blocks access between the two computers, I looked through Zone Alarm but didn't see any setting for allowing a specific IP address to access files between the two. This seems simple enough but there’s something I'm missing. What’s the easiest way to set this up?

Another unrelated question, but I'm dual booting Windows 2000 with Red Hat Linux 9 now. In all honestly, I don't like Linux at this point, but I'd like to play around with it some more and have internet capabilities. What’s the simplest way to set up Linux with a home wireless network with an XP Pro PC?

[Geronimo]

Maybe I am missing something but why cant you tell itt o allow address on that network to access it. If your access is dynamic naming a specific IP could cause problems anyway.

[SimpleSimon]

Zone Alarm regular or Pro? And if you're behind a router now, why not just use it's firewall? It does DHCP for your machines and NAT for the upstream, yes?

[MarkA]

Your router combined with Windows XP Service Pack 2 is plenty for normal web use and your router along is plenty for the Win2k PC which won't be at nearly the same risk of virus/worm infection (and thus doesn't need outbound protection.)

[Sandman]

Try going into ZA Pro, click on firewall and then zones, from there you should be able to add an IP address, but you must know the IP address that you are going to add, when I set mine up it automatically recognied the new address and added it.

Bob

[invaliduser88]

Add your local network into the Trusted zone in Zone Alarm

[Geronimo]

Add your local network into the Trusted zone in Zone Alarm



IMO that is all that will work. The specific addresses may change but if you make the all of the network addresses (as opposed to otside ones) trusted you should be fine.

[Steve Mehs]

I knew it was something really simple. All I had to do was change the zone type from internet to network. Thanks guys! :)