I think I got it working....

[poltr1]

After upgrading the network card driver and turning off Norton Firewall on orac, I'm able to ping orac from both orac and tardis without the packets vanishing in to the ether. I still can't view files across my network, though, when I open My Network Places.

Which leads to another question: I currently have Norton Internet Security 2004, and only using its firewall capability. I use AVG for my antivirus protection. Do I still need Norton Internet Security? Or should I rely on Microsoft's built-in firewall? In other words, would it be safe for me to uninstall Norton Internet Security?

[Updated 22:00] I still can't see \\orac\SharedDocs on orac when I open up My Network Places. Nor can I see any systems when I try to view the computers in my workgroup. I tried making a new network place, but when I browse, I don't see "Microsoft Windows Network" under "Entire Network". I did some searching on techrepublic.com and it seems that others have had the same problem.

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

You should certainly only have one firewall active on any one machine at any given time. Which you choose is up to you; I'm no fan of either MS or Norton's security -- I run Kaspersky Security Suite, and at some point must go deeper into it to configure it more accurately, which is my only complaint to date.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

I personally dislike Norton and have discontinued using them -- they're a horrible resource hog.

The built in firewall is ok, though it's about as basic as one can get.

I've been very happy with F-secure, which seems much less hungry for my RAM and is a very well regarded vendor for security and AV products.

[poltr1]

I don't know exactly when, but I think Symantec first jumped the shark when they came out with their first version of Norton Utilities for Windows. I still like the basic utilities, but everything else is as you say: a resource hog.