I’ve got an old XP machine and a new Vista machine I networked together on my home lan, and they can see each other in the workgroup just fine and use file and print sharing, but only as long as their Windows Firewalls are turned off. I suspect this might be fixed by setting my Windows Firewall exceptions differently, but I’m not sure. Has anyone else had this problem?
One of the exceptions I have is to let File and Printer sharing through the firewall, but it still doesn’t work. They can’t even see each other in the same workgroup unless the firewall is turned off.

Edmund

One Response to “Is there a way to use workgroups with Windows Firewall turned on?”

1. kill.term on February 28th, 2009 1:57 pm

   yes youv got it right all you need to do is tell the PCs to let file and printer sharing past the fire wall