Having trouble with my Norton Firewall!!!

TechCom0018

TechCom0018

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I can't seem to help my parents printing problems. My mother has a HP PSC All-In One printer connected to her Dell desktop, which has Windows XP, and neither her laptop, which has Windows Vista, or my father's laptop, which also has Windows XP, can't print to the desktop's printer via wireless network because of Norton 360's Firewall. I've tried temporarily shutdown her Norton's Firewall then connecting the 2 laptop's to the desktop's printer then I enabled Norton 360 Firewall. It works for a while, but then the Firewall always seems to block the 2 laptop again. Also every time my parents wanted to print something the desktop and the printer were on. So can anybody help me fix this problem?
 
^^ Thats norton for you. Seriously Norton has to be the worst antivirus! I suggest you get AVG or if your willing to pay then get Nod32 by ESET.
 
TechCom0018 said:
Thanks for the advice g25racer, but do you have any advice on how to fix my printer/firewall problem?
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It probably doesnt have anything to with the firewall. Anyways, are you sure you disabled it right? Try disabling it in msconfig both the services and the startup. Was the other pc on?
 
g25racer said:
^^ Thats norton for you. Seriously Norton has to be the worst antivirus! I suggest you get AVG or if your willing to pay then get Nod32 by ESET.
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xroxis01 said:
yeah yeah norton sucks.... just use the windows firewall
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Two false statements:

1) Norton doesn't suck, I use it, never been infected. Norton 2008 has one of the best scanners if not The best scanner. The only bad part is the ressource hog. That's all

2) None of your comments have helped the guy.

To TechCom0018:

Try disabling it totally and see if it works. If it does, it's Norton, if it doesn't, it's not Norton.
 
g25racer said:
It probably doesnt have anything to with the firewall. Anyways, are you sure you disabled it right? Try disabling it in msconfig both the services and the startup. Was the other pc on?
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Punk said:
To TechCom0018:

Try disabling it totally and see if it works. If it does, it's Norton, if it doesn't, it's not Norton.
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The way I disabled Norton 360's Firewall is I went into Norton's Firewall settings and clicked turn off firewall for about 15 minutes. I haven't disabled it by shutting down Norton 360, by killing the processor via Task Manager, or by using msconfig.
 
Yes, that disables it for 15 min. Does it work in the 15 minutes?

I don't know how Norton 360 works (I have Norton Internet Security 2008), but is there any way you can set special access to the printer?

Also have you set up your network to file and printer sharing?
 
Punk said:
Two false statements:

1) Norton doesn't suck, I use it, never been infected. Norton 2008 has one of the best scanners if not The best scanner. The only bad part is the ressource hog. That's all

2) None of your comments have helped the guy.

To TechCom0018:

Try disabling it totally and see if it works. If it does, it's Norton, if it doesn't, it's not Norton.
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Your so funny!! Norton sucks major
 
TechCom0018 said:
I think I fixed my printer/firewall problem, I just made a new Workgroup.
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Strike that, making a new Workgroup didn't fix the problem.

I've tried Disabling the Norton 360's firewall, Uninstalling and Reinstalling Norton 360 and nothing seems to fix the problem for good. I can get it working for a few hours, but Norton 360 keeps blocking any and all things trying to connect to it via the personal network, which is good,but bad for me.

Can anybody help me fix this problem w/o buying a new internet security software? :confused:
 
Ok I'm starting think it's a network problem. I just realize that all of the computers in my house are networked together, except one of the desktop that will not share it printing with any other computer in my network.

Every time I try connecting the my desktop's printer I got this error message:

\\ [Computer's Name] is not accessible. You might not have permission to use network resources. Contact the administrator of this sever to find out if you have access permissions.
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I also think it might have to do with the Network ID on my computer, here a picture of what I mean:

ComputerName.jpg


So can any body help me out?
 
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