Firewall and networking

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I am no expert.. Self taught but have worked considerablly with computers..
I found that networking on Vista was much more difficult than on their other
OS's.
Permissions and the firewall make it much more difficult to set up.
I supposed I could have read the instructions.. 8:)
But I didn't. And neither do most people??
Am I spolled by XP, routers and Zone Alarm??
Or did others have the same problem??
 
What issues did you run into?
For me, one machine worked out of the box. On my other machine, I chose
private network(User Error) and thus did not have internet access, I clicked
the repair button, and correctly answered I had a machine on the internet
and it took care of it...have not run into any other issues.
 
If Networking is designed to work out of the Box after turning on Printer and
file sharing. I suppose my issue could be with my puter.. (7 networked
puters. 6 XP and one Vista.)
The only machine I had without XP was my slowest.. 850 mghz/512 ram/128 mb
video..
Adding removing hardware and programs and things such as setting up the
network. Are painfully slow.
Or.. Could it be…
I am painfully inpatient??
Most likely a little bit of both.. And I may have messed up some settings
and manually had to figure out how to reset them..
A machine of this speed should only be expected to surf the net.
ON A HIGH SPEED CONNECTION..
I’ll wait till there are more drivers available before I install on my
faster machines..

You think I could have made my first mistake??

Thanks for breaking my heart.. 8:)
 
BIA said:
the firewall make it much more difficult to set up.
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Yes, the firewall configuration for outgoing connections is very difficult
because in this beta 2 there's not an interactive prompt when a program need
to estabilish an outgoing connection in order to create a rule on the fly. I
hope in RC1.
 
BIA said:
I am no expert.. Self taught but have worked considerablly with computers..
I found that networking on Vista was much more difficult than on their other
OS's.
Permissions and the firewall make it much more difficult to set up.
I supposed I could have read the instructions.. 8:)
But I didn't. And neither do most people??
Click to expand...

Then that's your tough shit.
 
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