Battleangel

It has long since been a nuisance for me not to be able to establish a network setup to its full capacity. File and printer sharing has been offline and FTP / Radmin services have been dodgy to say the least. Now at last, I worked out how to get it to work properly with no speed bumps or detours whatsoever.

• ZoneAlarm I had assumed that the firewall would automatically trust LAN connection from the same 192.168.*.* IP series. But apparently not. I found that the firewall had to be set for a TRUSTED IP RANGE of what the router was set to dish out (in my case 192.168.0.1 through 192.168.0.199).
• NetBios I had tried to activate NetBios before but with the recent upgrades it finally worked its magic. I.e. setting NetBios from Auto to Enabled for the desired TCP/IP connection makes WinXP file and printer sharing work like intended.
• New Router / Switch With a a bug fixed firmware and a seemingly (at least for the moment) working DHCP system. The DL-624 was expensive but well worth it in the end as it resolved both the wireless issue and network shares.