Hi ,

I'm running a server with a 54 g Belkin WLAN/LAN , it has direct access to 1/2 meg adsl. now the other 2 machines on this network are both laptops 1 running 54g picy micky and the other 11 meg. now with no firewall installed all's well with the world , every machine can access not only the net but each other, now to the problem. I installed (in the interest of security ) a firewall on the server ( Macaffe).

And althuogh all machines have internet access the 2 laptops they refuse to talk to the server , BUT the server can talk to them. very annoying. I can set the machines up with ip addresses and the same thing happens. But the problem seems to be the ports they use can anyone through some light on this ? I'd be eternally greatful. I can't help but think its something silly I've over looked .

But pls help if you can..

Thanx guys

Have you opended any ports at all on the server? You must open the necessary ports on the firewall. Since you have connected this firewall directly to the router, it has probably been st as un unsafe zone and therefore all connectios to the computer except the ports manualy opended. I'm not familiar with your firewall but perhaps you can set it to accept all connections from your other two computers (confiured by ip-number).

Hope this will help.