You didn't write if Zonealarm is installed. There is no disable for that software in spite of the disable setting.
As to your file permission issues, that's just something you need to read about as to ownership and permissions. Since all that is on the web for the reading, I will not duplicate the content here. Some will not research such on the web and need to go buy a book on administrating Windows.
Recap:
1. Some software firewalls don't disable even if there is a checkbox to do so.
2. Ownership and permissions. That's what you need to research.
Bob
Got two questions for the experts here.
First, when I try to share files/folders, they always are marked as read-only, even after I have granted others to modify files in the shared folders through the security tab. If I uncheck the read-only box, and apply the change, it still reverts back to being read only. This is on my desktop running WinXP Media Center edition (99% sure this is a variant of XP Pro).
For the time, I have gotten around this by turning off simple file sharing and allowing full access to everybody on every shared folder. I don't really like that idea, but for now that's what I have to do.
My second question is this. I can see and access my desktop files from my laptop (sometimes not until after a few minutes of being on the network), but I can not see the laptop from the desktop, nor can I see the desktop itself on the workgroup computers. The laptop has WinXP home, and WinXP Media Center (Pro?) on the desktop. I have disabled all known software firewalls, incl. Win ICF with no luck whatsoever.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

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