Turning off Vista firewall?

eldridge · Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 11

I have trouble with sharing an email client over LAN. My friends and I made a home network between our computers. The whole idea was to share one DSL connection for using the Internet. Because of its speed, it can satisfy all our needs and we would spend less money each. However, that is not working. Could that be because of having Vista and XP computers on same LAN? Should I, maybe, turn off Vista firewall?

tucky · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 7

Vista and XP are using the same protocol, TCP/IP, and work just fine together. You should never turn off built-in Windows firewalls, you will just have to set it up. I almost sound as Microsoft PR. There are few different ways for Internet connection sharing. You can do that by using hardware or software equipment. The thing you should do is called port forwarding. If you want to do that with software emulation, you must have some bigger experience. I assume that you don't so let us get back to the hardware solution. To do port forwarding you will need a special device called router. When you connect your network on router, you will not have any further problems with accessing the Internet over cable. The other thing you can do is to connect one computer to DSL and share its connection to everybody else. That way it will work as a gateway but it should always be turned on.

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