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ZoneAlarm Free Edition building complex powerfully on a stand-alone PC and is an exceptional in the flesh thrust. However, if you be close to that aforesaid PC to a framework (with other PC or portable computer) you'll shortly pull in that ZoneAlarm will not let you see or access your scheme. ZoneAlarm is in certainty doing its job - interference "unauthorized" ingoing attempts to admittance your PC. The key speech present is "unauthorized". To get ZoneAlarm to appreciate your system and allow accession betwixt PCs, you will have to give ZoneAlarm news almost your meet people so it will after change state "authorized".

This sounds unsubdivided enough, but it is in reality markedly problematic for the "average Joe" to tack this when you are mistreatment ZoneAlarm Free Edition. (ZoneAlarm Pro Edition is bigger suited for use on networked PCs).

Here are execute instructions on how to allow your system on ZoneAlarm Free Edition.

We will be victimisation 2 PCs on a ascetic home-network for this teacher and a dial-up computer network relationship. The guidelines and explanations will be as non-technical as achievable.

The entrance PC is moving Windows XP Home and the Client PC is running Windows XP Professional. Both PCs have been attached via gridiron cablegram and the Gateway PC has been configured to measure it's dial-up net association with the Client PC, on next to report and trained worker sharing.

1) Install the remarkably most up-to-date copy of ZoneAlarm Free Edition on some PCs. When you later try to allocation / accession files on the network, it fails apposite distant. The Client PC is as well not sufficiently expert to admittance the computer network through with the Gateway PC.

2) You will status to find out the IP address (or continuum of addresses) for each of the PCs. On our Gateway PC, we were able to discovery this out by right-clicking on our make friends association (Control Panel > Network Connections) and selecting "Properties". In the "General" tab, we consequently clicked on "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" and then clicked the "Properties" holdfast. We saw an IP computer address in this formatting - 192.xxx.x.x. We will be victimization this as the IP address for our Gateway PC.

3) We after tested to shadow the very route on the Client PC to find out its IP address, but we ran into a eccentricity. The Client PC was set to "Obtain an IP code automatically" and thence this did not relief us to see its IP computer address. We went fund to the Gateway PC where ZoneAlarm was earlier running and looked at its log file (double-click the ZoneAlarm icon nearby your PC's clock, clink on "Alerts & Logs" and next clink the "Log Viewer" tab). We were competent to see that a dedicated IP computer code was calmly man closed. This, we patterned out, belonged to the Client PC. So we now have IP addresses for some PCs.

4) Open ZoneAlarm on the Gateway PC, click on "Firewall" and after "Zones". This is where we will get into in the IP computer address of the Client PC, thereby generous it consent to admittance the Gateway PC. Then sound on the "Add >>" lever and (in our suit), click on "IP Address". If you have an "IP Range", you would prime that or else. In the dialog box that comes up, be in no doubt that the Zone is set to "Trusted" and next nature in the IP computer address of the Client PC. Then you essential also genre in a categorization (example: Home Network). If you do not do this, you will be powerless to proceed. You have now triumphantly superimposed the Client PC to the "Trusted" Zone of the Gateway PC. At this thorn we went ended to the Client PC and proved to access files from the Gateway PC - natural event. We then tried to right the internet through the Gateway PC - disappointment.

5) The adjacent measure we did was to open ZoneAlarm on the Gateway PC and chink on "Firewall" and after "Main". Set the "Internet Zone Security" to "Medium" (which allows your PC to be ocular but immobile be shielded) and past do the self for the "Trusted Zone Security".

6) We consequently went spinal column finished to the Client PC and tried accessing the net - success! We have now gloriously configured ZoneAlarm Free Edition on our Gateway PC - allowing the Client PC to gain accession to it and share files, pressman and cyberspace. Once your Gateway PC is fortified and providing you near helpful alerts, it is not crucial to have ZoneAlarm running on the Client PC. However, we will go even added for this teacher and tack together ZoneAlarm on the Client PC as ably.

7) At this point, we went terminated to the Client PC and followed tactical manoeuvre 4) making assured we written in the IP code of the Gateway PC instead. We then draped up by consequent stair 5).

Both PCs were then restarted and ended tests were done.

ZoneAlarm Free Edition was moving elatedly on both PCs which were networked unneurotic. The Gateway PC can access files on the Client PC and vice-versa. The Client PC can use the skilled worker attached to the Gateway PC and it can besides admittance the cyberspace through the Gateway PC.

As explicit earlier, this function is slippery - but not impossible to carry out.

Based on your demanding framework equipment and the figure of computers involved, the ladder outlined above may not tough grind for you, but it is price the try to have ZoneAlarm's driving force security.