Re: Norton Personal Firewall 2003, map network drive

maybe my message was not clear.

1st time: my firewall was on.
my friend was not able to connect.

2nd time: my firewall was off.
my friend was able to connect.

3rd time: my firewall was on (<----).
my friend was able to connect (<----).

Why?


"Jeff Umbach" <> wrote in message
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> It's rather obvious, the firewall is doing it's job by not responding to
his
> connection attempts. If you want to use a firewall and allow people to
> connect to your file shares, then you will need to do some configuration.
>
> --
> Jeff Umbach
> "Vassilis" <> wrote in message
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> > hello, I use Norton Personal Firewall 2003.
> > Windows 2000 Prof., my computer is inside
> > a university's lab.
> >
> > When firewall was enable:
> > A friend tried to find my IP throught Map
> > Networking and he was not possible to find it.
> >
> > When I disabled my firewall:
> > he tried again to find my IP. He found it and
> > asked for a username and password in order
> > to connect to my share drive D:
> >
> > After this I turned on my firewall:
> > My friend tried again to find my IP. But now
> > he was able to find it (when Firewall was: enable).
> >
> > What happened?
> >
> >
>
>

Vassilis

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Vassilis wrote:
> 3rd time: my firewall was on (<----).
> my friend was able to connect (<----).

Able to connect, or able to "find" it as you stated originally? If he could
just see it but not connect to it, that would probably be cause his client
cached it from when you had the firewall off. If he could also connect and
access files I dunno. It's possible the firewall detected the previous
connection as active and automatically added an allow rule for it in order
to not cut that connection I guess. But that seems to defeat some of the
purpose of a firewall to begin with unless the rule was made specific
enough to only be valid for that particular connection.


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Frode

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