I had a Malware infection a month or so ago. Farbar helped me clean it out. As part of the clean-up process I installed Sunbelt Personal Firewall 4. At the time I had a home network with 3 computers on it, all with Windows XP. The one with the Malware infection is wired (we'll call it WIRED) and the other two were wireless.
We got a new computer for Christmas (we'll call it NEW), also with Windows XP. I tried to set it up as wireless with all the protection that I had on WIRED, including Sunbelt Personal Firewall. My intent is to move one of the users (including Documents, Pictures, Music, etc) from WIRED to NEW. NEW was able to see the internet and one of my other wireless computers, but was not able to see WIRED. I tried to ping WIRED from NEW and NEW from WIRED but everything timed out.
I looked around the Sunbelt settings and found Trusted area under Network Security.
I added Home network with an IP range to include all of my PCs (and my router) on both WIRED and NEW. I left the Adapter at "any" (I figured once I got what I needed working, I could come back and see if I could tighten the security a little more). At that point ping started to work, so I hoped I was in business.
I tried to enter WIRED's IP address in Windows Explorer from NEW to see WIRED's shared directories. It failed (I believe the message was "Windows cannot find '<IP address>'. I also tried to create a Network Place, but it didn't recognize WIRED by name, or by IP address. I tried the same thing going from WIRED to NEW, but got the same errors.
Next I turned off Sunbelt Firewall on WIRED (and turned Windows Firewall ON, to leave me with some protection). At that point I was able to see WIRED's shared directories from NEW. I shared <account> under Documents and Settings on WIRED, then tried to access it from NEW. NEW could see Shared Directories that had been set up previously, but couldn't see any new ones. I tried to share My Documents under Documents and Settings\<account> and that failed as well.
Does anyone know how I can set this up to work? I've looked through Sunbelt's Help, but I can't find anything.
Thanks!
Kelvin