Windows firewall options greyed out 3

[paulha]

Afternoon All

I have a XP Pro machine on a SBS 2003 network. There are no group policies in place, the problem is only on this specific machine.

When logged in as a domain user, local user, local admin or domain admin, the options for switching off the windows firewall are greyed out. As far as I can see there are no applications (AV firewall) that have taken over the management of the Windows firewall, the only security running on the PC is NOD32 AV.

Is there some obscure tweak or method I could use to regain management of the Windows firewall?

TIA

 

[smah]

If you run netsh firewall set opmode enable from a command prompt, do you get any clues?

 

[linney]

This is a long but hopefully rewarding thread about problems with the SP2 firewall, it details various Registry settings and Policies.

SP2 firewall
thread779-923601



Troubleshooting Windows Firewall in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...46-131d-4617-bf68-f0532d8db131&displaylang=en

Manually Configuring Windows Firewall in Windows XP Service Pack 2

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0204.mspx#EFAA

 

[paulha]

Hi Linney and Smah

Just a quick update for you, it was pretty easy in the end.

1. netsh firewall set opmode enable just returned "ok"

2. I stopped the firewall service ( as recommended in Linney's first link) This acheived what I wanted to achieve. If only everything was that easy!

Thanks very much to both of you for the prompt responses and sucggestions, much appreciated! I would buy you a pint each, but it looks like a star each instead : )

Thanks again
Paul