I purchased a Linksys media adapter (wma11b) and connected it on my wireless
network (I know...i should have a media center pc instead, but cost is a
factor at the moment). In order for it to connect to my XP Home SP2 pc I
have to disable the windows firewall. After contacting Linksys to find out
what to add to the exceptions list in xp, they informed me " no, you need to
disable the Windows firewall to use our product...you do not need it on".

OK, I'm no dummy (am I ?). I have a DLink DI-624 router with firewall type
services on it, but should I not have XP firewall ENABLED for best protection?

How in the world can Linksys say I don't need it and to disable it...or am i
crazy and really should disable it?

I'd really like some comments back. Just seems strange to me. You'd think
Linksys would make their products 100% compatible with Microsoft.

Thanks

"Jabin" <Jabin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AAF5A713-E6D0-47FB-B82F-FC97925806DF@microsoft.com...
>I purchased a Linksys media adapter (wma11b) and connected it on my
>wireless
> network (I know...i should have a media center pc instead, but cost is a
> factor at the moment). In order for it to connect to my XP Home SP2 pc I
> have to disable the windows firewall. After contacting Linksys to find
> out
> what to add to the exceptions list in xp, they informed me " no, you need
> to
> disable the Windows firewall to use our product...you do not need it on".
>
> OK, I'm no dummy (am I ?). I have a DLink DI-624 router with firewall
> type
> services on it, but should I not have XP firewall ENABLED for best
> protection?
>
> How in the world can Linksys say I don't need it and to disable it...or am
> i
> crazy and really should disable it?
>
> I'd really like some comments back. Just seems strange to me. You'd
> think
> Linksys would make their products 100% compatible with Microsoft.
>
> Thanks
What they should have said is that you do not need two firewalls on one
computer. The Windows firewall on checks incoming traffic, but most people
feel more comfortable with a product which checks incoming and outcoming
traffic. So, you never need to enable the Windows firewall because it is
only half effective.
Jim

"Jim" wrote:

>
> "Jabin" <Jabin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AAF5A713-E6D0-47FB-B82F-FC97925806DF@microsoft.com...
> >I purchased a Linksys media adapter (wma11b) and connected it on my
> >wireless
> > network (I know...i should have a media center pc instead, but cost is a
> > factor at the moment). In order for it to connect to my XP Home SP2 pc I
> > have to disable the windows firewall. After contacting Linksys to find
> > out
> > what to add to the exceptions list in xp, they informed me " no, you need
> > to
> > disable the Windows firewall to use our product...you do not need it on".
> >
> > OK, I'm no dummy (am I ?). I have a DLink DI-624 router with firewall
> > type
> > services on it, but should I not have XP firewall ENABLED for best
> > protection?
> >
> > How in the world can Linksys say I don't need it and to disable it...or am
> > i
> > crazy and really should disable it?
> >
> > I'd really like some comments back. Just seems strange to me. You'd
> > think
> > Linksys would make their products 100% compatible with Microsoft.
> >
> > Thanks
> What they should have said is that you do not need two firewalls on one
> computer. The Windows firewall on checks incoming traffic, but most people
> feel more comfortable with a product which checks incoming and outcoming
> traffic. So, you never need to enable the Windows firewall because it is
> only half effective.
> Jim
>
>

Thanks...I should probably get a 3rd party firewall then and use that as my
in/out security.

Thanks for the reply.
Jabin

You would not need to enable the XP Windows Firewall unless you have a need
to protect computers on your network from each other which sometimes is the
case. Many enterprise networks enable XP Windows Firewall even though they
are protected by a perimeter firewall. --- Steve


"Jabin" <Jabin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AAF5A713-E6D0-47FB-B82F-FC97925806DF@microsoft.com...
>I purchased a Linksys media adapter (wma11b) and connected it on my
>wireless
> network (I know...i should have a media center pc instead, but cost is a
> factor at the moment). In order for it to connect to my XP Home SP2 pc I
> have to disable the windows firewall. After contacting Linksys to find
> out
> what to add to the exceptions list in xp, they informed me " no, you need
> to
> disable the Windows firewall to use our product...you do not need it on".
>
> OK, I'm no dummy (am I ?). I have a DLink DI-624 router with firewall
> type
> services on it, but should I not have XP firewall ENABLED for best
> protection?
>
> How in the world can Linksys say I don't need it and to disable it...or am
> i
> crazy and really should disable it?
>
> I'd really like some comments back. Just seems strange to me. You'd
> think
> Linksys would make their products 100% compatible with Microsoft.
>
> Thanks