Cannot share files in Home network

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Hello boys and girls,

I’ve been a Comodo firewall user for some time now and I love it. I have a desktop computer running Vista home premium 64 bit SP2 and 2 laptops running XP SP3 in my home network. On my destop I have comodo fiewall 3 64 bit installed and on my laptops I have comodo firewall version 3 32 bit. My desktop is connected to my router through an ethernet cable and the 2 laptops using WIFI. I’ve got file sharing setup proprely on all 3 since they can all see each other. Everything seems to be working fine except when I try to access files from my laptops to my desktop and can’t. Then, when I turn my desktops firewall off I can acess my shared files with no problem. I’ve already setup the IPs in the networks trusted zones but it still doesn’t work unless I turn the firewall off. Is there something else I’m not doing or is this a 64 bit issue? Besides that, I use the same configuration on my laptops and they can see each other just fine. Any help would be great!

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Yes, you need to make an allow in rule for System and svchost.exe

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Thanks for your response futuretech. Just a quick update. The problem seems to be solved. I upgraded to Comodo Firewall 4 on my desktop, used the same settings as I described before on my desktop’s firewall and all seems to work now. The only problem that remains is whenever I use Tunngle VPN on my Vitsa destop machine , I cannot access the shared files on it anymore. Disabling and then re-enabling the local area connection or a reboot seems to fix the problem. Hmmm… I wonder if there is a work around this?