On 5/23/2010 12:24 PM, Bob W wrote:
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.
I agree - it sets the customer up for a lot of frustration and
relentless calls to tech support.
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...
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