Panda Titanium 2006

[G0AOZ]

Looking at an evaluation copy of this software. Two problems for me immediately spring to mind, neither of which can I see answered in their knowledge base.

1. The Panda firewall stops connections to other PCs on the LAN. As far as I can see, none of the Connection Permissions under Advanced Firewall Protection, will allow LAN access. Do I really have to switch off the firewall when I want to transfer files locally?

2. There appears to be no option to scan legitimate network drives. Is this a denied feature?


ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

1) We have been running Pada for several years,(currently 2006 Internet Security - multi license) and have never had a LAN access problem. Panda has never stopped connections to other PCs on the LAN. I am assuming that connection access is 'on' by default.

2) That appears to be a limitation of Panda. It only scans local drives.

[Cheers]

 

[G0AOZ]

Thanks for that...

LAN access was fine before installing Panda. The Panda install default switches OFF the XP firewall, and switches on its own. Got no problem with that, other than it clearly stops LAN access! If I deliberately switch OFF the Panda firewall, then I can access machines on the LAN as before.

I find it surprising that it won't cope with a pre-mapped network drive. But that's obviously one of it's limitations. Pity...


ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Have you spoken with Pandas support about this?

[Cheers]

 

[G0AOZ]

Sent them an e-mail about the first point. I have yet to receive a response of any kind...

I was impressed with their on-line scan facility, but disappointed with the lack of documentation with the evaluation software. Plus the fact that you can't even download the manual until you buy it.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[bygeek]

I had some network problems with Panda previously, but I was told they fixed them in the new version - guess not.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

What type of network are you guys running? (Client-Server, Peer to Peer, M$, Novell, ???)

[Cheers]

 

[G0AOZ]

The one I was concerned with on this occasion was Peer-to-Peer...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[bygeek]

Mine was peer-to-peer also.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

We are P2P also, and use the Panda firewall only.

Does it work if you use Windows firewall only?

Are you both running the "NWLink" protocol(s) in the LAN properties? Not sure if that would have anything to do with it, but I was having networking access problems (before Panda) till I installed those.

[Cheers]

 

[G0AOZ]

Connections to other PCs on the LAN work fine with the Panda firewall switched OFF and Windows XP's own firewall switched ON.

Not running NWLink protocol. Initially had just TCP/IP, and subsequently added NETBEUI.

Just out of interest of the ones I've checked so far, Panda and AntiVIR don't do LANs, but Norton and Grisoft-AVG will check network drives.


ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I remember reading somewhere that M$ is phasing out NetBEUI & that it is not realy necessary (for smaller networks) if you are running TCP/IP. That memory is vague however.

My network consists of 12 computers, 10 of them having Panda.
Clients/Services/Protocols used are:-
Client for Microsoft Networks
File & Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
NWLink NetBIOS
NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

Under the Authentication tab I have de-selected the "Enable IEEE 802.1x Authentication for this Network" option.

I don't know if any of that will help you, but it seems to work fine for us. The downside to this setup is that I had to add a user account for each network user to each computer that was to be accessed. (i.e. If User-A used Computer-1 to access Computer-2, User-A account has to also be on Computer-2)

Again, I don't know if that is the correct or best way to do it, but we have never had network access problems.

[Cheers]

 

[G0AOZ]

Thanks. I'll check out that system against your config and see if it helps...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[josecarlosjunior]

Hi, G0AOZ!

Well, I've been hanging on many forums asking the same question. Why wouldn't Panda Titanium 2006 Firewall let me access my own LAN even though the adapter has been marked as a Secured Zone.

I've got the same problem all the time even with the latest versions (5.01.00 and 5.01.02) as instructed by the Panda Titanium 2006 Support Knowledge Base. Luckily (or not) it seems that version 5.00.00 worked well for a few minutes (before Panda auto-update the program).

As I was trying to figure out why didn't the Panda Titanium Firewall was failing, I started to think on the following situation:

- My LAN IP Address is 10.0.0.0/24 (mask 255.255.255.0).

Some routers and routing protocols (like RIP version 1) are not able to handle such Network Address as they expect that an IP 10.0.0.0 belongs to a Class A IP address and it's default mask is 8 or 255.0.0.0.

Supposing that the Panda Titanium 2006 Firewall worked the same way, I reconfigured my DHCP server to lease IP Addresses from the 192.168.0.0 Network.

I was surprised that this simple arrangement could solve my problem and I felt OK that finally it worked the way it should work.

Thinking later it really makes sense that if by mistake the firewall think that my adaptor network is 10.0.0.0/8, it should not allow me to access a 10.0.0.0/24 network, since they have different masks and represents different kinds of addressment.

If you still have trouble with Panda Titanium 2006 Firewall, I hope I could help.

Jose Carlos Junior.