Wireless File & Print Sharing

wolfman

Lol, hmmm, I'm not a ZoneAlarm user (prefer Kerio). There should be a setting within it to enable print sharing, I'd need to have a look, can check when I get home. There should be others here that can give you a walkthrough of ZoneAlarm.

Browntoa

zonealarm free does not support Networking

sygate free does, i had to swap to that to get it all working

http://www.simtel.com/product.download.mirrors.php?id=53687

cymro1170

Are the laptops Medion?

MercilessKiller

Aiadi wrote:

Wolfman, great instructions. Followed them to the letter and everything worked fine with the printer connected to my desktop running wirelessly from my laptop. that was until I put the firewalls (zone alarm) back on. Could you please advice? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Get rid of zone alarm.. yuck!!!

Then problem solved

Aiadi

cymro1170 wrote:

Are the laptops Medion?

Yes... the laptop is a Medion.

cymro1170

Aiadi wrote:

Yes... the laptop is a Medion.

Right.

You need to turn the Wireless on, on the Laptop.
Press the "Fn" and "F1" keys together to turn the Antennae on.

I had the same problem with connecting until I did this

Aiadi

cymro1170 wrote:

Right.

You need to turn the Wireless on, on the Laptop.
Press the "Fn" and "F1" keys together to turn the Antennae on.

I had the same problem with connecting until I did this

Thanks but how do I know if it's now turned on? I'll try and see if it connects.

cymro1170

Aiadi wrote:

Thanks but how do I know if it's now turned on? I'll try and see if it connects.

mine has a symbol similar to this
without the moving bars on it, in the bottom left hand side of the laptop - this lights up when it is on

Aiadi

Oh, I think this is only applicable if the laptopis wireless enabled and not like mine (although it does have the symbol on F1). I am using a USB wireless adapter and not getting the signal you've depicted. Thanks for your help anyway. I'll try and install Kerio firewall.

wolfman

Should be nice and easy (hope I'm not cursing you) to setup with Kerio. It'll either ask you upon one of the machines accessing the other, and you tick to allow it permanently. Or, open up Kerio (the blue shield in the bottom right), go to Network Security. Look for "Microsoft File and Printer Sharing", and make sure it's ticked (permitted) for trusted in and out.

Note when first running Kerio it should recognise your network. Ie it'll say it's found a network at 192.168.0.1 (or whatever your router address is), just tick it and accept and this'll be set as a trusted zone.