Although this option isn't necessary for File and Printer Sharing, checking it may make troubleshooting the network a lot easier and less confusing. The Norton Personal Firewall also lets you put your computers in the "trusted zone" so their communication isn't interfered with.
Although neither the documentation nor any of the interactive messages says anything about it, my own experience is that systems newly added to the trusted zone may not be really trusted until the computer is rebooted. I'm not sure rebooting is necessary.
But I strongly suggest rebooting after any change to the Norton Personal Firewall "trusted zone" is prudent. The net result of all your configuration changes should be that all traffic on each of these four connections is seen by all your computers but is not seen on the Internet outside your home. Be sure your File and Printer Sharing works only within your house. Don't allow your file shares to be visible on the Internet at all ; even a hint of its existence is certain to attract crackers.
A variety of security testing tools is available at ShieldsUP!! Explore the site you may need to find and click on ShieldsUP!! If you use a hardware router, it establishes one connection with your internet service provider probably broadband then places all your computers directly on a "local area network".
In this case none of your applications should try to establish a connection since one already exists. Most applications will correctly simply go ahead and use any existing network. The Internet Explorer web browser though may be configured to "dial a connection" regardless of any existing local area network. In the case of using a hardware router, this behavior is incorrect. In this case you may need to explicitly configure your Internet Explorer networking options to "never dial".
The Domain [third box] part of the login is never available. Group Policy control and functions are not available. Homes don't have a Microsoft Domain Controller and don't use Group Policies anyway, so not having these options considerably simplifies configuration and administration in the home context.
If you're trying to use Windows XP Home Edition in a school environment, the absence of any interface with a Microsoft Domain Controller and of Group Policies may present interesting problems. Since my experience was in a home environment, I never ran across any of these interesting problems and so can't address them meaningfully.
Gotchas Two things in particular really threw me. Firewalls Software Firewalls, whose job it is to keep your computer safe from the Internet, have default configurations that will almost certainly interfere with File and Printer Sharing.
To do this open the "properties" of the network connection, select the [Advanced] tab, and un-check the "Protect my computer or network" box. Ensure all your computers are members of the same "workgroup". Understand which IP addresses your computers will use, and configure these as "trusted addresses" in all software personal firewalls. My reading suggests this should only be necessary if some of the computers are older ones not running XP, but my experience suggests it's necessary even in an XP-only Home configuration.
It is apparently possible to use a different networking protocol suite for File and Printer Sharing if you have the operating system installation CD. But I don't have experience with using other networking protocol suites, and I don't see that it's necessary. Details The net result of all your configuration changes should be that all traffic on each of these four connections is seen by all your computers but is not seen on the Internet outside your home.
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Windows XP has brought networking to a new level. Jim Boyce takes a look at both versions and the differences between networking features. Do you go with the vanilla Home Edition version or spring for the chocolate, nuts, and marshmallow chunks in Professional?
A Windows XP Professional computer can join a domain and function as a domain member. Domain membership extends the benefits of distributed security to the Windows XP desktop, enabling users to easily access domain resources. It also lets the user share resources with other users and authenticate those users against the domain rather than require individual accounts on the local computer. By contrast, computers running XP Home Edition cannot be domain members, although they can access resources on a domain member in the same way workgroup members running other Windows platforms can access domain resources.
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