Greetings Mike,
Correct, there is a way to allow LAN through the NORTON Firewall, but
I'll need to research the IP addresses to all the other machines and then
their individual names or ID's..
Currently I do not know that information. It then is added to an exception
page in the NORTONS firewall setup.
However, I was able to access the ME machine I wanted by shutting down the
NORTON firewall.
That 1 hour access saved me 4 hours of copy and paste via flash drive..
;-)

Tks to all who offered help and advice.
I think I'm beginning to get a feel for this win 7..
( and even the NORTONS which has a grip on it..) LOL

tks again
RTS


"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Once you get rid of the Norton firewall and can "see" the other machines
on the network (the four devices probably being your router, Vista PC and
2x Win Me PCs) you should have no problem with your Win 7 machine
accessing files on any Win Me shares, you should also be able to
communicate both ways between your Vista and Win 7 machines. Similarly if
you were to have a machine running XP you would also be able to establish
two way communication.

Nevertheless I would have thought that you should be able to configure
Norton's firewall to permit access. Surely there has to be a setting or
option on it that identifies blocked machines and allows you to permit
access?

And now to bed ...
--
Mike M


Rockytsquirrel wrote:

Greetings Mike,
Yep, first thing I found is NORTONS firewall has totally blocked
all LAN connections, NORTONS says there are 4 devices on the
network but without the IP address and connection machine name it
will not open the path.. As Noel suggested I'm looking for a way to
shut down the firewall, but it may take a while for me to get
famililar enough with it to find the correct settings.

Ever since Peter Norton sold his company its been in a downward
spin...
I was hoping to keep things as they were on this new machine till I
got a better understanding of how it works but if this is any
indication I may not be able to wait. ;-)

Mike, as for the networking and file sharing, the ME's don't need
to access the win 7 machine, I was just wanting the win 7 machine
to link with the ME's so I could move all the txt files and html's,
jpg. mov, and the like to the newer system..

(the newer machine can burn DVD's ;-) which helps with
backups)
tks again for all the feedback