not seeing network and shares anymore..

since i got a linksys router i haven't been able to see the network and shared drives. I'm not sure if this is because of the router (using DHCP) or because i have added zone alarm firewalls to all the clients. I've installed the latest firmware from linksys (supposedly works w/ zonealarm now) do i have to have some special settings on zonealarm? (trusted zone is on medium, supposed to see network shares)

thanks
xbe

First...get rid of zone alarm.

Try shutting zone alarm down on some of the machines. If you
see the network, it was zone alarm blocking ports.

-OR-

If you set up your router to block ports, free up port 138 & 139
for NetBios.

ok, tried turning off zonealarm, didn't help.

i checked the settings on the router, and i'm not sure how to open up the ports assuming they are all blocked unless forwarded and they have to be forwarded to a specific IP. so would i have to put every clients IP in and forward these ports? and are they UDP or TCP?

thanks'
xbe

If you're using DHCP, you should be starting from an IP, assumed a private address 192.168.* for a specified range, you should then add that range to the trusted zone. This may have been different before the addition of your router.

I'm using ZA, and a combined Firewall/Router, and haven't had any problems thus far

Ax