I committed this one to memory - it turns the firewall off on Vista or Win7 in a manner that gets the OP what he wants (free flowing traffic):
netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state=off Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 firewall That's how it's supposed to work-it's a defensive mechanism. The OS assumes that if the firewall service is stopped, something must be wrong. It shuts down networking because of this. There are other ways to turn the firewall off, though: http://blogs.technet.com/networking/archive/2009/03/24/stopping-the-windows-authenticating-firewall-service-and-the-boot-time-policy.aspx John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: David Florea [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 firewall We use ACT on our network. We've always had to disable the XP firewall in order for ACT to work in a networked environment; no biggie because the local firewall wasn't used anyway. Now with a Windows 7 machine on the domain, I have a drive mapped to it from an XP workstation. To my surprise, if I actually disable or stop the firewall service on the Win7 PC, it kills drives which are mapped to it from an XP workstation. I tried it several times, worked the same way each time. I can't find anything definitive about it - anyone know why that would be so? Thanks, David NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
