Re: SBS2003 Firewall Group Policy

Thanks for the reply; I'll test it ASAP.

In regard to the following:

> 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.

Just as I do not need the government to protect me from myself, I do not
need Microsoft to protect users from themselves. Most of my clients are
small business who have industry specific software; Oriental Rug Cleaning,
Court Reporting, Case Mangement, Real Estate, etc.; Microsoft SP2 does not
understand that network traffic from these programs is legitimate. I should
not have to create rules to allow legitimate network traffic. I understand
that in the enterprise where you have a standard application set, extensive
GPOs, RIS, etc, the advantages of the firewall are apparent. I wish
Microsoft would understand the former concept and give us the choice of
implementing the firewall (and other features) or not, rather that dictating
it.


"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:

> 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.
>

>
>
> "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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