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ZoneAlarm Free Edition industrial plant cured on a complete PC and is an inspired personal thrust. However, if you link up that aforesaid PC to a gridiron (with another PC or portable computer) you'll in a minute realise that ZoneAlarm will not let you see or right your meet people. ZoneAlarm is in information doing its job - interference "unauthorized" incoming attempts to access your PC. The key linguistic unit present is "unauthorized". To get ZoneAlarm to treasure your exchange cards and allow entree linking PCs, you will have to snap ZoneAlarm news active your scheme so it will afterwards become "authorized".

This sounds trouble-free enough, but it is in fact awfully thorny for the "average Joe" to set up this when you are victimisation ZoneAlarm Free Edition. (ZoneAlarm Pro Edition is advanced appropriate for use on networked PCs).

Here are allover book of instructions on how to pass your meet people on ZoneAlarm Free Edition.

We will be mistreatment 2 PCs on a unproblematic home-network for this tutorial and a dial-up computer network relationship. The instruction manual and explanations will be as non-technical as getable.

The entrance PC is running Windows XP Home and the Client PC is moving Windows XP Professional. Both PCs have been related to via framework wire and the Gateway PC has been organized to portion it's dial-up cyberspace seam beside the Client PC, along with file and skilled worker sharing.

1) Install the massively up-to-the-minute publication of ZoneAlarm Free Edition on some PCs. When you after try to slice / right files on the network, it fails authority distant. The Client PC is as well inept to entree the cyberspace finished the Gateway PC.

2) You will entail to breakthrough out the IP address (or scope of addresses) for all of the PCs. On our Gateway PC, we were competent to find this out by right-clicking on our grating relation (Control Panel > Network Connections) and selecting "Properties". In the "General" tab, we later clicked on "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" and after clicked the "Properties" holdfast. We saw an IP address in this data formatting - 192.xxx.x.x. We will be exploitation this as the IP computer address for our Gateway PC.

3) We afterwards proven to pursue the one and the same requirement on the Client PC to ascertain its IP address, but we ran into a conundrum. The Client PC was set to "Obtain an IP computer code automatically" and thus this did not abet us to see its IP code. We went vertebrae to the Gateway PC where on earth ZoneAlarm was before now moving and looked at its log file (double-click the ZoneAlarm statue neighboring your PC's clock, sound on "Alerts & Logs" and after chink the "Log Viewer" tab). We were competent to see that a picky IP computer address was evenly person treacherous. 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 later "Zones". This is wherever we will come in in the IP computer address of the Client PC, thereby bountiful it concurrence to right the Gateway PC. Then clink on the "Add >>" toggle and (in our armour), clink on "IP Address". If you have an "IP Range", you would superior that or else. In the dialogue box that comes up, be definite that the Zone is set to "Trusted" and next caste in the IP address of the Client PC. Then you must as well breed in a verbal description (example: Home Network). If you do not do this, you will be powerless to speak. You have now with success intercalary the Client PC to the "Trusted" Zone of the Gateway PC. At this component we went over and done with to the Client PC and well-tried to entree files from the Gateway PC - success. We next tested to right the net through the Gateway PC - breakdown.

5) The close measure we did was to unfastened ZoneAlarm on the Gateway PC and click on "Firewall" and afterwards "Main". Set the "Internet Zone Security" to "Medium" (which allows your PC to be telescopic but standing be weatherproof) and next do the aforesaid for the "Trusted Zone Security".

6) We consequently went rear legs ended to the Client PC and well-tried accessing the net - success! We have now elatedly organized ZoneAlarm Free Edition on our Gateway PC - allowing the Client PC to gain right to it and allocation files, skilled worker and cyberspace. Once your Gateway PC is bastioned and providing you near utilitarian alerts, it is not needed to have ZoneAlarm running on the Client PC. However, we will go even more for this tutorial and set up ZoneAlarm on the Client PC as all right.

7) At this point, we went ended to the Client PC and followed measure 4) making confident we typed in the IP code of the Gateway PC instead. We consequently mantled up by following tactical manoeuvre 5).

Both PCs were consequently restarted and broad tests were through.

ZoneAlarm Free Edition was running gloriously on both PCs which were networked in cooperation. The Gateway PC can entree files on the Client PC and vice-versa. The Client PC can apply the printer related to to the Gateway PC and it can also admittance the internet finished the Gateway PC.

As stated earlier, this formula is sensitive - but not insurmountable to complete.

Based on your specific make friends setup and the figure of computers involved, the stairway outlined above may not industry for you, but it is worth the try to have ZoneAlarm's drive safety.