I agree with Al. Right click on Comodo in the taskbar and click on EXIT to turn it off entirely while you are trying to setup your home networking. Once your home networking is working correctly, you can start it back up.


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I have two computers connected to the same Linksys router. When I run IPCONFIG on one I see IP address 192.168.2.100, the other one is 192.168.2.101. In the My Computer -> System Properties both computers have the same name in Workgoup "MYCOMPANY". One computer is XP and another Win2000. How do I access shared drives from one computer (XP) on the other computer (Win2000)?
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Which machine contains the drives you want to share - the XP or the W2K?
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>W2k has the driver that I want to share; that it, have access to it from XP.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>Have you already created the share on the W2K machine?
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>>>>>>>>>>>I did. Here is how I did it. On Win 2000 I selected properties of the D: drive and checked the option to Share this folder.
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>>>>>>>>>>OK, that's good. Assuming:
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>>>>>>>>>>- your W2K machine's name is "W2K"
>>>>>>>>>>- the share name you just created is "D"
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>>>>>>>>>>By default a share has read-only access, you may want to set that to read-write if necessary.
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>>>>>>>>>>Then, on the XP machine, in a CMD window you should be able to issue
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>>>>>>>>>>NET USE Z: \\W2K\D /persistent:y
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>>>>>>>>>The above command returns "The network path was not found".
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>>>>>>>>I assume you replaced the "W2K" machine name with whatever your W2K computer's actual name is, and likewise with the share name of the share you created?
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>>>>>>>Yes, exactly. And I tried to use D and D$ with the same result (network path not found).
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>>>>>>Have you explicitly enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP as outlined on the other branch of this thread?
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>>>>>>By default, there is no firewall with W2K. Have you installed any 3rd party firewall such as ZoneAlarm, Norton Internet Security etc.?
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>>>>>I did change the NetBios but didn't rebook.
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>>>>>There is Comodo Firewall installed on the W2k PC. But I disabled it by setting "Allow All"
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>>>>Is there any other firewall? Many antivirus suites have their own firewall as well.
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>>>There is a personal antivirus AVAST but I dont think it has a fire wall.
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>>Are you sure? And are you sure your Comodo firewall is disabled? Many of them, by default only disable themselves for a short time period - maybe that has elapsed.
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>>If there is no firewall blocking access, and you have NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled then the NET USE command listed above should work. Its advantage is it works in the event that NetBIOS network browsing is not working or not up-to-date.
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>As I mentioned to Tracy, I did create a trusted zone in my Comodo in the range of the Linksys router IPs. But I have not rebooted the PC, yet. I will do it now.
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>And Tracy confirmed that she also uses AVAST but it does not stop network from working.