Fire Wall Problems

Christian, in your article "How To Create A Zone In Bitdefender Firewall" you advise on the settings for the network type. However I can't change any of the values. For the Stealth mode, I can see the options are Remote/On/Off yet the setting remains fixed at Remote whatever I select.

I'm running Windows 8/64 and trying to network with my wife's PC running Windows 7/64.

Pings work OK, and I can see the other PC in Windows Explorer. I use CodeTwo Outlook Sync to sync our Outlook calendars which works OK, but I can't share files and can't set up a Homegroup.

I've read page 109 which you refer to in another posting, but I can't change anything. Help please!

Nigel

I'm not an expert but I would try the following:

1. Turn off the BD firewall.

2. Setup a new HomeGroup - Windows 8 and Windows 7 computers.

3. Make sure it's working.

4. Turn on the BD firewall.

5. Add your wife's PC address to a new Zone if needed.

Thanks for the input indie. I'm away from home at the moment but will use your recommendations when I get home. . However, I still wonder why I can't turn off being in stealth mode, which I feel is key to my problem. It may be I'll have to do a re-install, but thanks for taking the trouble to email.

On the Windows 8 computer, you need to log-in as Administrator in order to change your settings for BD firewall.

Hi Nigel and welcome to our forum!

To further investigate the cause of this issue, please post here a support tool log by following these steps:

http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=29927

You may not be able to upload the files here as they are too big so you can put them on www.sendspace.com and post the download links.

If you were already asked to generate the log file, disregard the above message and just post the ticket ID.

Have a nice day!

I am glad to hear this. Since the issue is now resolved, I declare this topic closed.

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Have a nice day!