I really am new to the Comodo firewill I have installed. I am glad I found this forum as I know I’ll have lots of questions. I have a wireless Linksys WRT54GS Ver.6 router connected to my PC and my xbox 360 has a wireless connection. Today I wanted to listen to some music thru my 360 and it would not connect to my PC (in the past this process worked fine with Norton). However, ever since I installed CPF I have never once had a problem connecting to Xbox Live. When I clicked MY PC under media shaing I get an error message saying “a firewall may be blocking the connection.” So, I clicked the DEFENSE tab, DEFENSE+SETTINGS, and DISABLED the SECURITY LEVEL to see if things would work, which they did.
There was another thread I found that I thought may help me define a new trusted zone and then set the rules but it appears to be for an older version. If anyone could help me I’d appreciate it. Thanks.
The principles for the previous version still apply in V3, but things are in different places.
To define the zone for your LAN, open CFP and click FIREWALL → COMMON TASKS → MY NETWORK ZONES. Include all the IP requried to allow traffic on your LAN (including any routers and, of course the Xbox).
To create the equivalent of a network rule in CFP V3, oen CFP and click FIREWALL → ADVANCED → NETWORK SECURITY POLICY → GLOBAL RULES. Click ADD, set up the rule as per the post covering the previous version, but under SOURCE ADDRESS and DESTINATION ADDRESS select ZONE and use the zone you have just created for your LAN. Click APPLY. The rules may take a minute or two become effective.
So far it’s not working. Here’s exactly what I have thus far. Upon looking back at my trusted zones I noticed my router wasn’t in there either. So now my Xbox and router have been added. Do I use both of the rules for the router also? Thanks.
The zone definition must include all devices that will send/receive information to/from the PC running CFP. Assuming that your LAN is running addresses in the 192.168.1.X range, make your zone definition 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.254. This would cover all devices.
You’d need to extend that address range to 192.168.1.255 to catch the broadcast traffic (LAN filesharing and name resolution, UPnP queries, and other such noise).
Is there anything in the firewall log? It could be there is some traffic being blocked somewhere.
If there is nothing obvious in the log, then it may be there is a combination of rules that is causing the problem. Try running the Configuration Reporting Script (sticky topic at the top of the forum page) to get a listing of all the rules. Just the firewall rules, as that script can produce a huge amount of output.
I can see in the Firewall Events where the IP address of my 360 has been blocked a bunch. Do my settings look correct? I am afraid to rum the Configuration tool as I’m a computer simpleton and it sounds like I could really mess things up using it if I don’t know what I’m doing. Thnaks.
Could you post your log? The details of what’s being blocked may give some clue as to what the problem is.
About your settings being correct, I don’t know. It’s because I don’t know what your settings are. The Configuration Reporting Script is just a report generator. It doesn’t have any capacity to make changes to your machine. It’s quite safe to use. If you run the script, you’ll get a compact report that you can post here, and then we can work thru your settings in detail.
I tried that but it didn’t work because the file is an htm file and apparently I cannot upload that type of file to the forums. To start I wen to VIEW FIREWALL EVENTS > MORE then I highlighted every event , right clicked and clicked EXPORT TO HTML and chose to save to my desktop. What am I doing wrong? Thanks guys for hanging in with me.
