Sunday, October 14, 2007

Painful Networking Lessons

The home network suddenly stopped working this evening--and the symptom was that no one could see workgroup MSHOME.

After much suffering, it turned out to be that Norton Protection Center's Firewall (rather than Microsoft's Firewall) "learns"--and somehow learned to disable all file sharing requests from within the network.

The solution is to add all IP addresses in your local network to the list of allowed accesses.

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