Netguard Home networking

[computershatson]

I have set up my home network, but no computers on the network can see fhared files on the computer running NTL Netgaurd, I have checked the Firewall rules and the one alowing incoming and out going travic on the the local network is enabled,if I turn of the firewall all computers on the network can then see shared files on this computer, anyone got any ideas.

[Sput]

Sorry to hear about your problems. I used NTL Netguard without a problem until I setup my home network and then I encountered exactly the same problem you describe. I tried everything without success and eventually contacted NTL technical support. After a lot of testing they concluded that NTL Neguard CANNOT be configured for network file sharing and so I had to ditch Neguard. I moved to ZoneAlarm Security Suite and it works very well indeed - but, unfortunately, unlike Neguard, it is not free!

[Aragorn]

If you have a home network behind a router (which has a built-in firewall) the MS XP SP2 firewall should be sufficient and does allow file sharing. If you do use the XP firewall, Windows Defender is also a good idea to warn about untended opening of extra ports.

[Nikesh]

ntl Netguard doesn't support file-sharing through your network. This is the reason I moved to ZoneAlarm too.