Good firewall?

Eamonn · Post by **Eamonn** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:50 pm

Need a new firewall cos NIS is pissing me off. Tried ZA but it didn't let me share files over my network. Any recommendations?

Post by **fac51** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:18 pm

sorry only use NIS, not had any issues with it yet. zone alarm is well rated, what about the pro version or is that what you were using? should let you share over a network if you configure it

Eamonn · Post by **Eamonn** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:24 pm

Yep tried the pro version. configured it and everything but was still to stubborn to work!

arfur · Post by **arfur** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:41 pm

I use NIS 05 and have no problems with at alll, and I have a network.
To get the pc's to see each other you just need to open NIS and firewall optoins click networking tab and run the wizard, it finds the newtork adapters, do this on all m/c's reboot and then your cooking.

Post by **fac51** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:13 pm

Yeah it worked fine for me when i networked my pc\'s. Is it a network problem you\'re having eamonn or something else?

Posted from a Sony Ericsson K700i

Eamonn · Post by **Eamonn** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:54 am

The network works fine with NIS but it's really annoying how you have no option other than installing NAV with it, even though it can be disabled. It's also a big nasty resource hog!

Adamizer · Post by **Adamizer** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:28 am

TRy smoothwall :wink:

http://www.smoothwall.org

you need to set up a pc p3500 or bigger with three networkcards
voila you made a proxy !

BTW you need to set it up with a linux core to work but hey nobody hacked us yet and its only the freeware version....

Post by **fac51** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:34 am

heard of smoothwall, gets good reviews

Post by **117** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:36 pm

bloody hell posts from Adamand Arf within 24hours of each other

Eamonn · Post by **Eamonn** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:10 pm

looks good... will chack it out in a bit

Post by **fac51** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 4:50 pm

after spending most of the weekend fecking about with NIS 2005 i concur that it is shite. too much bloat in it now, it gave me problems opening office files and playing some games. in the end i ended up reinstalling office and NIS 3 times :arse:

dont think i will be getting NIS 2006 next year

Eamonn · Post by **Eamonn** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:54 pm

So are you still using it?

Post by **fac51** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:45 pm

yes as im slowly but surely fixing all the issues, tis just a total pain in the arse is all. spent ?24 on it so deffo using the fecker

Post by **fac51** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:01 pm

i take it back, it keep fecking up, i fecking hate nis now :where:

Post by **117** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:49 pm

strange, how could they make it so different from NIS2004, which i've never had a single problem with?