First, enable your LAN into Control Panel (or into System > Hardware or in Connections). You can be sure of this adding an icon to the System Tray.
In ZoneAlarm > Firewall > Zones > See if you have properly configured your Internet Adapter (generally, WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface - IP - Adapter Subnet - Internet Zone).
Can a single workstation be part of an LAN? I checked in
Start > Control panel > Network and Internet Connections > Network Connections and I have 3 connections set up, 2 are enabled and one is unplugged, they are listed below:
AEI USB To Fast Ethernet adaptor - Packet scheduler miniport
WAN Network driver - Packet scheduler miniport
Linksys LNE100TX fast ethernet Adaptor(LNE100TX v4) - Packet scheduler miniport
(This Network Cable is unplugged)When I switched from dial-up to broadband I left the connections pretty much as they were, do you think I need to "clean" this area up a bit?
Also all the connections are listed as in the Internet zone in ZA and the only one showing any activity in Task Manager is the
AEI USB To Fast Ethernet adaptor - Packet scheduler miniport.In ZoneAlarm > Firewall > Main > you can set both to 'High' (Internet and Trusted Zone Security).
The security level for the Internet zone is set to high and for the trusted zone is set to medium (recommended), should I change this?
Going back to what you said here...
ZoneAlarm could ask for access rights if the LAN is not well-configured. I'm not sure, but ashServ.exe does not have to connect the Internet...
I think you're asking if ZA has any trouble connecting to the Internet?, the answer is it doesn't, also I haven't had any problems with my connection and other programs connect fine too.
I hope this info helps, just ask if you need me to do anything else.
Thanks.