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Windows 7 (and probably Vista) have firewall setups based network location. This means you might run into problems trying to connect to services on your Windows boxen, because by default N900 USB Network adapter isn't known to Windows as a proper type of NDIS device. This causes Windows to put connections made over USB into "unidentified connections" category and apply Public Location firewall rules to it. Now of course you could poke all the holes into your Public firewall profile and make it look like Swiss cheese, but fortunately some VirtualBox people ran into the same thing with their loopback adapter and [http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=73167#p73167 solved it for us]: | Windows 7 (and probably Vista) have firewall setups based network location. This means you might run into problems trying to connect to services on your Windows boxen, because by default N900 USB Network adapter isn't known to Windows as a proper type of NDIS device. This causes Windows to put connections made over USB into "unidentified connections" category and apply Public Location firewall rules to it. Now of course you could poke all the holes into your Public firewall profile and make it look like Swiss cheese, but fortunately some VirtualBox people ran into the same thing with their loopback adapter and [http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=73167#p73167 solved it for us]: | ||
- | + | 1. open Registry Editor | |
- | + | 2. browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} (all network adapters are stored here) | |
- | + | 3. find your N900 USB adapter sub-key, it says the adapter name somewhere in key | |
- | + | 4. add DWORD key *NdisDeviceType with a value 1 | |
Now your USB connection is considered part of Private firewall profile. Stay safe and go buy Swiss cheese in supermarket instead. | Now your USB connection is considered part of Private firewall profile. Stay safe and go buy Swiss cheese in supermarket instead. | ||
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