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Old February 7th 10, 01:37 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Rockytsquirrel
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Default networking ME to win 7 via router

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

RTS



"Mike M" wrote in message
...
The best thing you can do for yourself and your Win 7 PC is get rid of
Norton PDQ. The Win 7 firewall is more than sufficient, especially so if
you are sitting behind a router using NAT (Network Address Translation).
With Norton removed or at least Norton's firewall disabled the Win 7
machine should be able to see the other PCs on your LAN and access shares
on your other PCs. Regrettably though this still won't allow your Win Me
PCs to access shares on the Win 7 machine.
--
Mike Maltby



Rockytsquirrel wrote:

Greetings Mike,
I just purchased the "Dummies" book of win 7, so given enough time,
I hope I'll stumble upon the part I've been missing so far..

As I was telling Noel, I already have several items I need to
check on, the router, the vista machine, and for sure the win 7, plus
I did find out this machine is using NORTONS which has
disabled the win 7 firewall in favor of its own.. So that might
be part of the problem..
Hopefully I'll be able to remember all the problems I find and
pass them along to everybody..

Tks for all the feedback