opening up sharing with a home firewall

recently got norton personal firewall for some additional security. While logged on gnutella network I'm totally happy sharing files but this damn personal firewall keeps out users who want my stuff and declares them 'hostile attacks.' OK fine - I can confgure the tool (set up trust rules) to allow individual IP addresses thru -but that doesnt do the trick for zillions of other users with other IP
s who want to access...
anyone have any ideas for me to tinker with so I can share?

[GreyFool]

Try if you can open your port for IP 0.0.0.0/0
But be warned, that opens your port to attackers too.
I'm regarding 1 attack a day on average to my open port. An then, a successful attack you probably won't see.

What the hell is push for?
Just get connected to a few hosts and be happy. Chill, it works great! Don't open a port! If your client sucks that bad, trash it! Firewalls are fine with a client that supports push properly!

[GreyFool]

Originally posted by Unregistered
What the hell is push for?
Just get connected to a few hosts and be happy. Chill, it works great! Don't open a port! If your client sucks that bad, trash it! Firewalls are fine with a client that supports push properly!

And how the hell do you connect to any other host if none opens a port for incoming connections? If all will say 'I do push and be happy' then you wouldn't find a host to download from.
And then - only hosts with an open port can download from you and it seems that not even that works properly - during an entire week I got not even one single file downloaded from those pushed connections, while they're happily downloading from me. That sucks. I would say: You pushers are halfway freeloaders.

I am writing this as I think it out so excuse me if my mind wanders

you firewall them not
you get a push request from them and then you connect to them and use that connection to send the file.
you do a search and a hit comes back from them with a port number, you connect to them and the file is transferred to you through that connection.
both times you made the connection so it should be ok.
problem if you are not allowed to connect to their port # for some reason or your proxy server wont let you, you cant expect everyone to change to port 80 for you.
can you use a public proxy? could you connect to a public proxy port 80 through your proxy? your client wouldn't handle it properly though.
test for it? how?
you send a push request to a firewall person he cant connect to you to send the file, no port because you are firewalled, problem. no where to connect.
you get a wireless card and have all kinds of fun while the boss is not looking. his network gets hacked because they came in through your wireless connection because you didn't yank the ethernet plug!
looks like you can only get files from a non firewall host if you are behind a firewall.

did I miss anything?

[GreyFool]

@Unregistered

Yea, at work, that's right. And no use of your own card, because maybe there's a tool looking for packets who aren't expected to be on the local net and you could get fired for that.
But this thread is about a personal firewall where the setup is on your own.