Hopefully I'm posting in the right place...seemed to be the only "firewall"
related group:
1. Running Windows 2003 Server Standard Ed as a web and mail server
2. The server is hosted at a third party web hosting provider. The server is

I'm new to networking and would like someone to explain how a network is
connected to the internet and email is set up.
I'm thinking that: I must purchase connection to the internet from a company
like AT&T, Verizon etc. I would them need a server with 2 nic cards (one for

If I have two machines, A and B, on a workgroup (called workgroup), from A I
can run \\b\sharename and connect to it.
Now, if B is on a different workgroup, say, workgroup1, is there a
straightforward way to connect to it from A?

While I was out of town (anotherwords, nothing changed) we can no longer
ping.
Here is our configuration:
Windows 2003 Native DC's

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I am having a problem where if an outbound connection is idle for 2 hours
the the firewall will drop the connection. We have outbound apps that need
to be connected for extedded periods of time and not diconnect and they may
be idle for a few hours.

I noticed, that I can not access my desktop's shared drives from my
table PC, when my firewall (ZoneLab) is running. What holes do I have
to drill (i.e. which ports and protocols do I have to open) to allow
drive sharing?

I wish to add a hardware firewall i.e. router
but there is no cable or HS service here.
I have to dial up via regular phone line.
Most documentation about routers assumes

we try to discover what port I have to open in my Windows Server 2003's
firewall software in order to connect to an Oracle db that
run in this server.
Have a nice day to everybody.

We have a Java app that accesses MSSQL.
When Windows XP Service Pack 2 is installed, the Java app
no longer launches, displaying a connection error.
We have tried using TCP/IP and opening port 1433, the port

Hi group,
I have two pcs, one desktop pc and one notebook, each of them has win xp
pro. What I want to do is to connect them by network to access the internet
on the notebook over the desktop pc and for filesharing between the two

I have 3 PCs hooked to a Linksys Router
and one linksys access point (for laptops)
All XP All working ok
I have a weekly problem where I lose connection.

On laptops that are domain members (running WindowsXP Pro), the users are
unable to open mapped netwotk shares such as their personal home folder when
connected to the office via VPN (SecuRemote on CheckPoint FW-1 NG FP3). They
can access all other resources such as intranet web ...

Please recommend the following according to my requirement:
(1) I need to allow/block my network users to surf particular website.
(2) I need a chat messenger that only communicate with specified users on
the chat server.

I have the default config in the SP2 firewall for allowing VPN. However,
when I try to connect to my PC, the VPN connection times out. If I try
it again immediately it works. In other words, the first connection
attempt fails EVERY TIME, but the second attempt is successful.