How to set the firewall to allow the access the sharing file/printer from outside of the intranet.
In the morning, we found a solution to the access of our printer. In the very beginning, we have to turn off the firewall in the computer connected with our new color printer, in order for the wireless users in our lab to use the printer from outside of our intranet. The problem of this method is that it's not very safe when the firewall is turned off, and moreover one important service (ICS) supporting the file/printer sharing is often shut down without any reason. In result, we have to reboot the computer to restart the service once in a while, because it's impossible to restart this service. That's weird, right! It's time to solve this problem once and for ever. The solution is to adjust the configuration of firewall in the computer connected with the printer. Open 'Windows Firewall -> Advanced -> Local Area Connection', and add a service through setting the name, such as 'Wireless', and the IP, like 149.169.*.* for ASU, and Port No. for TCP or UDP, like 445. The setting guarantees the requests to the computer will be allowed. It looks simple, right! J