Please Stop Me Going Mad!!!!!

[luke313]

Just set up the sharing of my net connection with a D-Link DSL-504 today, and I'm stuck. I can connect to the internet through the router, but I cannot get file sharing to work. I've gone through the XP wizard 3 or 4 times now to no avail. The machines will not ping each other, although they can ping the router and they can ping themselves. Any suggestions???

Just to clear up a bit. I've managed to set up the router (sort of), and can connect to the internet through it from both machines, just cannot share files or ping each other Grrrrr.

[Moby-Dick]

have you got the xp firewall on ?

[luke313]

Nah, not enabled from either pc

[luke313]

Fixed it, Zone Alarm was blocking sharing and pings

[Ethos]

I've said it before and i'll say it again....zonealarm is useless.

[Howard]

No, it's not.
If you're running ZoneAlarm on a PC not directly connected to the internet, of course you're going to have problems! Same with any firewall...