Local Area Network Fire Walls?

[tempochan]

when i look at my LAN connections it says its firewalled.. I have my filesharing enabled in my internet options but im wondering if im having trouble downloading because my LAN is fire walled....and if it is how can i change it ...i use windows XP.

[delphin460]

right click on your lan connection and choose properties

click on the advanced tab

untick the enable fire wall

see if it helps

if you are on a lan you might need to port forward to get good speeds

http://filesharingtalk.com/index.php?showtopic=87045&st=0
check out that post it might help

[Xero Grid]

You must have the XP firewall mentioned active, but it doesn't cause any problems except disabling simple file sharing. It's not even a full firewall. It protects against RPC attacks such as the blaster worm and other crap. So, if you don't want to share files with other machines on a network, just keep it p. It should be up even if you have a seperate firewall or router.

I highy recommend a router or hardwarefirewall. What I did was take an old piece of junk computer and install a version of Linux that's non-graphical to serve as my firewall/router. Smoothwall is good, and easy to find. DistroWatch (http://distrowatch.com/) allows you to easily find many distros of Linux, including ones that don't need to install, Live Disks (http://filesharingtalk.com/index.php?showtopic=98483). You can then forward ports by going to watever simple website interface it uses.

-- Xero Grid --

[UcanRock2]

If it's enabled...Blubster won't work either