I have two PCs on the same LAN. One is Windows 2K and the other WXP
Pro. I can "see" the WXP box through Network Neighborhood, but I
CANNOT PING it, either by hostname or IP address.
I CAN PING the W2K machine from the WXP Machine. Firewall is disabled

What was the *technical* justification for re-designing Vista FW (handling
outbound traffic)?
If MS is considering that monitoring outbound traffic is such a pressing
security issue,

Ran Network Setup Wiz. a dozen times - each time it said success, but no
shared folders on remote computer. My Computer shows network drives.
Right click on network drive>Properties has a greyed-out type-in box that I
can't type in (although the cursor is blinking in it).   Type: ...

I have tried endlessly to get this "firewall' to work. Maybe it's a firewall
against my attempts!
Many access avenues (control panel, admin tools) but each unable to do what
I want. Endless lists of cryptic blocked 'things' on varous networks

Hi, I have an obscure problem. I hope that this is the correct
newsgroup for this item. Apologies if it is not. My problem is this...
We sit behind a corporate firewall. We have a fixed IP address which
forwards to an internal IP address of 192.168.102.11 with no port

I've been looking through netsh related documentation in regards to the
Windows Firewall.  I'm hoping that I've overlooked something obvious, but it
seems that I have to always specify a port number in the rule when it is
created.  Is it possible to create a rule that instructs ...

I have 1 main site with a Windows 2003 server and a remote site with 2 PCs.
They both have router/firewalls and a configured VPN that is working. The VPN
client software is installed and working. I was advised to use RDP to connect
to my main server.

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I am having trouble configuring XP sp2 Firewall. When I enable “File and
Print Sharing” en open VNC 5900tcp port it works fine! But when I connect to
another network IP range “File and Print Sharing” and VNC port is not enabled
anymore. Why? This is very annoying because we a lot ...

I have added some antivirus software to my Vista Business laptop that's not
from MS. Is it possible this software has caused Windows Firewall to stop
with all Security Center options greyed out as far as turning Windows
Firewall on? Is there a registry key I can access to turn ...

I have an XP SP2 client that was within an OU which had firewall
policies defined.  Those policies enabled the firewall with a list of
allowed applications and ports.  Now, I've moved this client to an OU
which has the firewall settings set to Not Configured.  I also

Anyone know where I can find a firewall for Win 98?

Huge description of data is available on Cisco Pix Firewall model and
its features including intrusion protection, syslog support, VPNs,
network address translation and a lot more.
http://it-techexperts.com/CISCO/CCSP/CCSP03.asp