Firewall problem I think

Hi all,

I have 2 machines running WinXP and Win98SE. The 2 machines are networked
together with Actiontec wireless LAN cards running in AdHoc mode. The XP
machine is connected via ADSL to the net.

I recently reinstalled Windows XP after my HD died on me. I've decided to
use the SP2 firewall instead of my old Mcafee one. However I have a
problem. The XP machine can browse files on the Win98SE machine but not the
other way round. I know it's most likely a firewall problem but i've
enabled everything in firewall settings but it still doesn't work. I can
surf the net and use MSN messenger on my Win98 machine but not browse files.
I've fully enabled sharing on the XP machine so I don't know what else to
do. Any ideas?

Thanks.

don't rely on the sp2 firewall
it only protects inbound, not outgoing 'phone-home' virus etc.

diable the XP firewall and see if it works again then install ZA free or WHY
on both machine along with AVG free.

mike

"M Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:cqos3t$pa6$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all,
>
> I have 2 machines running WinXP and Win98SE. The 2 machines are networked
> together with Actiontec wireless LAN cards running in AdHoc mode. The XP
> machine is connected via ADSL to the net.
>
> I recently reinstalled Windows XP after my HD died on me. I've decided to
> use the SP2 firewall instead of my old Mcafee one. However I have a
> problem. The XP machine can browse files on the Win98SE machine but not
the
> other way round. I know it's most likely a firewall problem but i've
> enabled everything in firewall settings but it still doesn't work. I can
> surf the net and use MSN messenger on my Win98 machine but not browse
files.
> I've fully enabled sharing on the XP machine so I don't know what else to
> do. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:22:05 GMT, "mikeFNB" <moc.dlrowltn@FNB7G-ekim>
wrote:

>WHY
Whats WHY?

Steve

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:46:27 +0000, SJ wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:22:05 GMT, "mikeFNB" <moc.dlrowltn@FNB7G-ekim>
> wrote:
>
>>WHY
> Whats WHY?
>
> Steve

What have you ! as regards firewall software.

Dave

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