Re: Disabling Firewall
From: OMaurizio (omaurizio_at_libero.it)
Date: 10/20/04
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:39:47 GMT
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:32:49 -0400, "BGood" <bgood@nospam.org> wrote:
>In securing XP prior to SP-2, we disabled the Internet Connection Firewall
>(now Windows Firewall) by setting the service to "disabled". (We have other
>firewalls in place.) In doing so, we never had any problems. Now,
>disabling the Windows Firewall causes the "Computer Browser" service to
>crash. We found that we could only keep the Computer Browser service
>running if the Windows Firewall Service was running. This was true with the
>firewall enabled, so long as the File and Print Sharing exception was turned
>on. Alternately, we could disable the firewall (via Group Policy or netsh).
>In any event the Windows Firewall Service must run for the Computer Browser
>service to run correctly.
>
>As a general rule, and according even to Microsoft, unneeded services should
>be disabled or removed. I am curious if there is any documentation in
>existence that states the new connection between the Windows Firewall
>service and the Computer Browser service. I have seen nothing that
>explicitly states that WF service MUST RUN for the CB service to run! And
>it is NOT on the dependencies tab for either service.
>
>Comments?
>
I actually have firewall service disabled on XP PRO SP2 (italian) and
no problems with any other service.
Maurizio
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