Disabling XP Firewall on a LAN/WAN

[bubarooni1]

Originally posted in the XP forum. Respondant thought it might help to post here:

Hi All,

I need to disable the xp sp2 firewall on every machine on my LAN/WAN.

I've seen some scripts to do that on this and other forums, but not every machine I have uses a login script.

As an example, I just found a machine with xxx.xxx.1.10 IP address that didn't show up on my scans because it couldn't be pinged. I discovered it by actually assigning the 1.10 address to a cisco switch which then knocked the user off the network because of the conflict.

Has anyone ever used a 3rd party utility that can accomplish this?

Thanks In Advance

 

[Electro121]

If you are running a Windows Active Directory domain and your users are connected / login to this domain then you could likely set a group policy to do this (although I have not personally verified this).

Good Luck!

 

[ITPangaeaArchitect]

Yes can use policy if on a Windows 2003 domain with XP clients, or on a Win2000 AD domain if the policy is set from an XP client.

Assuming this is NT4 domain though, you should be able to make a custom policy file to disable the windows firewall service (or add it to current if one exists).



-Brandon Wilson
MCSE00/03, MCSA:Messaging00, MCSA03, A+
Manager - Global AD Operations
ACS, Inc.