Re: SBS2003 Firewall Group Policy

Answer: on the SBS, open Group Policy Management. You'll see a policy
called Small Business Server Windows Firewall. You can edit the policy by
finding it under computer configuration, administrative templates,
networking. You'd change the "protect all network connections" policy to
disabled to prevent the firewall from running anywhere in the network.

Editorial comment: IMO it would be a much better idea to figure out how to
make the firewall work with the Ricoh. SP2 is widely distributed by now,
and I'd guess Ricoh support has simple instructions for solving your
problem.

In an SBS network, the Windows firewall is not protecting you from outside
threats so much as it is protecting your users from each other. Someone
with a diskette or a careless download can trash your network from within
regardless of your external firewalls.


"Chris" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B09F5D39-41EA-4E03-9881-F49125B7E8A9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a small client who ought to be on a peer to peer network; however,
> they purchased a software package that required a server; the one they
> bought
> came with SBS2003. All service packs, patches, etc. are up to date.
>
> Each workstation is XP Pro with SP2. They have a giant Ricoh copier,
> printer scanner that does not work with windows firewall. I do not
> consider
> this a problem, I have installed two (2) firewalls by different
> manufacturers
> for firewall protection. I want to disable the windows firewall; however,
> when I go to do so, There is an error message about Group Policy having
> disabled the abilty to turn off the firewall.
>
> I read article 872769, but it doesn't really tell me what I want to know:
> I
> want to disable or destroy all windows firewalls on the network. I have
> adequate hardware protection and their network scanner will not work with
> it.
> Therefore I want it gone.
>
> Can someone help me here?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Chamberlin


.

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