That is in fact exactly what I do, as it offers some protection from anything that manages to get inside the network (a risk as I have two machines that spend time on public networks, at school or elsewhere).
The trick is to be sure to have no more than a single firewall running on any machine, preferably the Windows one (which is well documented and relatively predictable, if not necessarily the most capable) and be sure that no Norton/Symantec security software is anywhere near your network. -Adam On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Paul Sorenson <allarou...@earthlink.net> wrote: > 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... >> >> >> B >> >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2891 - Release Date: 05/23/10 >> 01:26:00 >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
