I have a WindowsXP Prof PC with SP2 and enabled firewall. In the network
connections I've added an incoming connection which uses ISDN. I've set up a
user and granted him access to the incoming connection.
On another PC I've defined a RAS network connection which calls the first

Scenario, small LAN with a W2k DC. 3 other W2k and XP Pro, currently all
private IP's sitting behind an Linksys, all with private IP's 192.168.1.X .
Gateway is Linksys set at default 192.168.1.1 Linksys is connected to
Internet via ADSL and PPPoE.

Someone has given me a new sealed copy of Norton Internet Security
(2004) with a validation code on it and I am wondering if there is anything
on it which could be of use to me. Does anyone have a view on this?  Or is
it yet

I have 200clients with WinXp SP2 installed at our school, I want to remotely
install the ghost8.0 client from my ghotserver.
The problem is that the firewall of Xp won't let that happen.
I wonder if there's no script that let's me allow to open the specific port,

Why does my XP firewall turn off? I am running zone alarm as well, is this
the culprit?

My laptop cannot view files on the other computer, it pops up with the
message that Access is Denied. file sharing and printing is on, and ive
turned off windows firewall, but it says there is still one on. I dont know
of any Firewall i have on my computer so why does it still ...

Is there a software way to block all NIC outgoing traffic in Windows XP SP2
(hack NIC drivers, Windows prompt command...)? I don't want any outgoing
packets (including DHCP, ARP, etc.) to leave my NIC. I want to do this to
monitor network traffic on a hub, without interferring with ...

I have a Problem with the tranfer of TCP http packets via port 80.
system: IBM Thinkpad R52, Windows XP Pro SP2
internet connection:
LAN, 1.5Mbit, no proxy server necessary, no firewalls, simple

Here is a strange one.
Since last Sunday, the outgoing http trafic to regular web sites (i..e to
port 80) is blocked from my home PC running XP (not SP2). This means I can no
longer do any web surfing. Actually, I can connect to web sites after a

Just upgraded to SP-2 and upgraded Zone Alarm about the same time. I got the
yellow exclamation mark in my system tray on my small LAN (2 computers
connected with crossover) and went to Zone Alarm site for help. I set all 4
entries in my Firewall | Zones to Trusted, and now the ...

I have Wireless Ethernet, connected to apartment
wireless router using shared DSL.
Always worked OK, but since yesterday,
connection says Excellent

I am network admin of a non-profit org that helps troubled kids.  We have 23
computers connected to the domain running XP.  Everyone is able to get on the
network/Internet okay except the other day one computer suddenly
wouldn't/could'nt get an IP address from the PDC/DHCP server ...

Hello and thanks in advance for any help you can provide. I am very new to this
topic so please forgive my ignorance...
Here is my sistuation: Under current Windows (XP, etc), suppose I have two
tcp/ip client processes running on the same machine from behind a NAT. Each

hi friends, I've a lot of instances of svchost.exe running, and I want to
know why this .exe is using the following ports:
TCP 135, 1025, 1056, 3389, 5000
UDP 123, 1026, 1027, 1900

I have recently switched from McAfee's firewall to Windows Firewall.  When
that firewall is enabled, my laptop is blocked from accessing files on my
desktop computer and the desktop computer does not "see" that my laptop is
part of the network.  If I disable the firewall, ...