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Home network Question
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| Boulware5 2001-11-07, 1:43 pm |
| I got a mini home network all set up with a NAT router to share internet access and also files. The one problem though is that I can't have Zonealarm on each PC. When I do, it blocks the NetBIOS Session from each other's PC, thus I can't share stuff when that happens. Anyone have an ideas? I would like to use ZA with the NAT router for extra protection. | |
| darthw 2001-11-07, 5:41 pm |
| I had the same with ZA problem setting up a network for my brother, only I was using a cablemodem for the ISP connection. I ended up multihoming the PC attached to the modem and using a nonrouted static IP addresses onthe internal LAN communication between PCs.
If there's a way to have it running on each, I don't know what it is, but I didn't spend much time messing with it. | |
| Boulware5 2001-11-07, 7:56 pm |
| There needs to be a way to configure zonealarm to allow NetBIOS sessions from each local PC. However, I have no idea how to configure ZA to do such. Does anyone know how? | |
| gammann 2001-11-08, 7:20 am |
| Is your NAT box a stand alone box? i.e. one of those cable modem or DSL/"router" boxes? If so, you should be doing the security on that. If its doing NAT, you shouldn't have to worry about security on the boxes behind the NAT, since in order for anyone to get through it, it has to have ports open and those ports mapped to your machines.
I haven't used ZA, but with BlackIce, you can trust a machine buy its IP address. Maybe ZA has something like that? Also with BI you have to configure it in order to run any servers from your machine, i.e. FTP, WWW. | |
| Boulware5 2001-11-08, 1:04 pm |
| Well it is doing NAT. I have the Netgear Cable/DSL Switch/Router combo box. I just heard it's good to still use something like ZA even with NAT in case something gets through. I'm paranoid I guess.  I am on IRC a lot, so security is of concern. Either I will look into something a little more configurable (maybe Tiny firewall?) or not worry about it at all. | |
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| billigee 2001-11-10, 12:48 pm |
| look in the zone alarm settings. you can protect both pc's with ZA in your host pc. but you need to allow your second (guest, slave or whatever) pc access to the host.
you type in the second pc,s ip address into ZA and it should allow you to connect ok.
i'm no network techie but i've used ZA over a home network using a cablemodem and got it sorted no problem. |
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