I suspect being attacked by someone and I'd like to close ALL the ports
excepts those used by the following clients:
MS Messenger, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express (both news and email),
Windows Media Player 9 and IIS Ftp Server (my personal ftp server running on

my computer-literate friend, living 400 miles away, shut off his firewall on
XP SP1 and now is unable to restart the firewall. when he tries, XP
presents the following error message:
"An error occurred while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled. The

I turned on my pc the I found that no icon on my desktop and on the other
hand when I try to right click on my mouse no action happen but  when I go
to safe mode I found everything on my desktop so please can you tell me what
I have to do to back to normal.

What is a good firewall recommendation for a set of pcs connected to the
internet via an ADSL router/switch?
Thanks
Regards

MAIN:
Problem: Need a way to set Password Expiration Days Under
Group Policy\User Policy\Password Policy from 42 to 0 on many StandAlone PC,
so i won't do for all of them the Control Panel\ Administration tool, ....

Problem:  all incoming packets are dropped, regardless of ICMP, TCP, or UDP.
I have tried disabling the Windows Firewall on all connections,  I still can
not ping the machine from other box. (funny part was that pfirewall.log was
still logging the "OPEN/CLOSE" entry even after I ...

Hi, i'm pc user.
In my office we have 10 computers, with windows 98/2000/XP.
they actually runs fine in network, anyway i want to know how to set them
correctly

I´m a newbie to servers so please have patience.
Installed MS SBS standard on dedicated server and a DLink DFL 700 firewall.
Outbound traffic is working like a clock, but I can´t access my workplace
from outside via the Internet (haven´t dared experimenting with VPN yet!).

.....the gateway, that is the question.
I set up my local software firewall and trust all the local dynamically
applied IPs as standard however should you always trust the gateway IP
or is that opening up all data from that IP through to the networked PCs?

Everysince installing SP2 I cannot access the files on the other 3 machines
I have.  It always ask for a password or dont have access.  Machines share
the printers just fine and have no problem with the internet.  Any ideas...

how to disallow user to download files in the network (windows 2003 standard
as ad, dns with wins) clients windows 95 and xp professional ???
please help
jimmy

I know the router is independent to the PC. How do you control the router on
windows xp home. Because I want to map a port from a PC to a router required
by some software. Thanks
Jack

Doing some work and testing XPsp2 in the lab.  Can deploy silently to
clients (via SUS) - great.  And have new ADM GP templates in the lab
working also.
However, as you know, the Windows firewall is enabled by default.

I just installed SP2 and there seems like something is wrong,  when I click
on Security Center,  it shows firewall is on,  but when I click on Windows
firewall it shows off.  I don't have another firewall running either.  Also
I have no icon in the taskbar,  but maybe there isn't ...

I'm trying to join a server to a domain from a NATd subnet in a DMZ. However
because of the NAT the DNS lookup is resolving to the real IP address of the
DC's when looking for SRV records. Has anyone got a work around for this
that does not require RRAS or ISA Server?