I have a home network. I just installed a firewall on the computers and now,
when I want to browse one of them from another computer in the network it
says "MSHOME is not accessible". If I turn off the firewall it then works
fine. I think I have to open certain ports in the firewall to fix this, but I
don't know which ones Xp networking is using.

Thanks

Patrick wrote:

> I have a home network. I just installed a firewall on the computers
> and now, when I want to browse one of them from another computer in
> the network it
> says "MSHOME is not accessible". If I turn off the firewall it then
> works fine. I think I have to open certain ports in the firewall to
> fix this, but I don't know which ones Xp networking is using.
>
> Thanks

Look in the firewall's configuration and set the lan as trusted. I
usually do this with an IP range. Example:

192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254

You do not need to open any ports.

Malke
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Your solution has helped me a lot. Now, both computers can see each others
without problems. Now the remaining problem is that they're both in read only
mode, which is not very useful when file transfering. I will start a new post
for this.