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Networking woes--help!
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| Flyboy217 |
My roommate has a Linksys wireless router which we both use to connect to a cable modem. I've turned off its firewall and DMZ settings, and I've turned off my WinXP firewall. However, I still cannot receive incoming file transfers on Trillian (through AIM on port 23, or MSN). I can send him files just fine, but he (and everyone else) cannot send me files. I also cannot seem to connect to other computers through P2P applications (although on kazaa, one gets through once in a while... I never get any results on that other P2P program I use).
My laptop is a work laptop (so his his), but I cannot find any services running that I think would cause this. Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this? I've also tried port forwarding for port 23 and the ones my P2P apps use... but still no luck. |
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| DJ Nuclear |
| quote: | Originally posted by Flyboy217
My roommate has a Linksys wireless router which we both use to connect to a cable modem. I've turned off its firewall and DMZ settings, and I've turned off my WinXP firewall. However, I still cannot receive incoming file transfers on Trillian (through AIM on port 23, or MSN). I can send him files just fine, but he (and everyone else) cannot send me files. I also cannot seem to connect to other computers through P2P applications (although on kazaa, one gets through once in a while... I never get any results on that other P2P program I use).
My laptop is a work laptop (so his his), but I cannot find any services running that I think would cause this. Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this? I've also tried port forwarding for port 23 and the ones my P2P apps use... but still no luck. |
Set the laptop as the DMZ and it would work, though you open your computer to attacks from anyone (DMZ = de-militarized zone = all ports are forwarded to one computer). IIRC, AIM chooses random ports to get files with. |
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| Flyboy217 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Nuclear
Set the laptop as the DMZ and it would work, though you open your computer to attacks from anyone (DMZ = de-militarized zone = all ports are forwarded to one computer). IIRC, AIM chooses random ports to get files with. |
Thanks. I tried setting my comp as the DMZ... but my roomie was still unable to send. I think it might be a local setting, not a router setting. Any ideas? |
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| DJ Nuclear |
| quote: | Originally posted by Flyboy217
Thanks. I tried setting my comp as the DMZ... but my roomie was still unable to send. I think it might be a local setting, not a router setting. Any ideas? |
If you are the person your roomate is sending a file to and he is on the same local network as you, setting you to DMZ would remove all forwarded ports to him.
Why don't you just share the files via microsoft networking or something, though? |
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| Flyboy217 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Nuclear
If you are the person your roomate is sending a file to and he is on the same local network as you, setting you to DMZ would remove all forwarded ports to him.
Why don't you just share the files via microsoft networking or something, though? |
I'm not so much concerned with getting files from him... that's just to test if it works. If I'm DMZ, shouldn't he still be able to send me files (unless I'm misunderstanding)? I still can't figure out why ppl can send files to him but not to me :(. He has no ports forwarded to him. |
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