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Hello,

Has anyone experienced problems with IIS when ZoneAlarm is installed? Here is what happened:

My computer runs Windows XP Pro with free ZoneAlarm. Just the other day after a trip, i wanted to setup the web server using IIS so my friends will be able to see the pictures i took.

Being lazy, I didn't want to write any HTML pages, so I enabled browsing for the directory in which the picture files reside. I was able to browse all the way into the directory; however I could not open the picture files.

the IP of my computer is 192.168.0.100; however, my router box has virtual server capability. I have it setup so for HTTP requests, it will forward them to the computer. In addition, I have enabled allow access and allow server for both trusted zone and internet in ZoneAlarm.

Later on, I discovered that the pictures would load if I use http://192.168.0.100/pics/pic1.jpg. But if I use the IP of the router, I was only able to browse to the pics directory, but could not open any jpeg files.

After uninstalling zoneAlarm, everything worked fine. I just feel uneasy about not running ZoneAlarm...

has anyone experienced this kind of problems? And has anyone found a way to solve it? Thanks!

This is a rather useful site for ZoneAlarm and its uses: http://www.markusjansson.net/eza.html

Did you try and play around with the file permissions?

It sounds like you need to set up your trusted zones a little bit more to handle the requests.

You might also try a different firewall app (Sygate or Kerio are good and I think they both have free versions/free home use) that are (considerably) more configurable.

emanresu,

Post a copy of your ZoneAlarm logs for the relevant connection attempts. Once we know what it's blocking, we can figure it out how to allow it.

well, I did set up a trusted zone range from 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.0.255, which should have convered both the router and the computer.

Right now, I have uninstalled zoneAlarm. I will do what [ch]amsalot suggested and post a log here... however, it won't be until tomorrow. some stupid thunder storm struck last night and my apartment was out of power. Not sure when they will fix it.

I will try to stick with zoneAlarm... swtich to sygate or kerio only if zonealarm is hopeless.

thank you for your help.

The router is passing your friend's IP, which is probably still in the Internet Zone.