C
CP de la Cruz
I have a Win2000 PC on a Toshiba USB broadband modem
connection, and another connection to a home subnet using
a Macronix 10/100 NIC. I have Internet Connection
Sharing enabled on the USB connection, as a "gateway" for
Internet access from the subnet. I do not have a
firewall, so I just make sure I always have the latest
virus definitions installed. Over the external broadband
connection, I've been sharing some non-critical folders
on my PC in read-write mode with some friends, with only
strong-password protection. To access the folder, all
they had to do was to open Win Explorer or IE and type my
ISP-issued IP address \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\MyShareName and
they could view all shared resources on my PC. If they
wanted to open one of the shared folders, all they had to
do was either provide a valid user ID and the password
when prompted, or they could map the shared folder as a
network drive with the same ID and password. When my PC
got hit by the Blaster Worm, I updated my system with the
security patch, and also got all the latest bug fixes via
Windows Update. Now, however, no one is able to find
their way to my PC, and they are getting the error
message "network path to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx not found". I
checked my TCP/IP settings on the USB network connection
and I do NOT even have TCP/IP Filtering enabled! From
any other PC connected on the subnet though, I have no
problem accessing my "gateway" shared folders if I type
the ISP-issued IP address in Explorer.
I'm not sure if I just did something wrong, but would
anyone know if the Blaster security fix (or any other
recent Win Update fix) might have blocked inbound access
for browsing my shared resources? Any suggestions on how
I can fix this?
connection, and another connection to a home subnet using
a Macronix 10/100 NIC. I have Internet Connection
Sharing enabled on the USB connection, as a "gateway" for
Internet access from the subnet. I do not have a
firewall, so I just make sure I always have the latest
virus definitions installed. Over the external broadband
connection, I've been sharing some non-critical folders
on my PC in read-write mode with some friends, with only
strong-password protection. To access the folder, all
they had to do was to open Win Explorer or IE and type my
ISP-issued IP address \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\MyShareName and
they could view all shared resources on my PC. If they
wanted to open one of the shared folders, all they had to
do was either provide a valid user ID and the password
when prompted, or they could map the shared folder as a
network drive with the same ID and password. When my PC
got hit by the Blaster Worm, I updated my system with the
security patch, and also got all the latest bug fixes via
Windows Update. Now, however, no one is able to find
their way to my PC, and they are getting the error
message "network path to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx not found". I
checked my TCP/IP settings on the USB network connection
and I do NOT even have TCP/IP Filtering enabled! From
any other PC connected on the subnet though, I have no
problem accessing my "gateway" shared folders if I type
the ISP-issued IP address in Explorer.
I'm not sure if I just did something wrong, but would
anyone know if the Blaster security fix (or any other
recent Win Update fix) might have blocked inbound access
for browsing my shared resources? Any suggestions on how
I can fix this?