Re: Effect on laptops of turnign off firewall via GPO?

From: Gregg Hill (bogus_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:24:28 -0800

Kevin,

I want to make sure that the policy would not disable the XP SP2 firewall
when off the LAN, regardless of other solutions they may (or may not, in
this case) have. Do you know if it would be off when on the LAN and on when
out of the office? I need to have *some* protection when out of the office
until I convince the powers that be to get better protection ( a daunting
task!)

As to your second question, because it interferes with our accounting
application and Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition version 9, so far.

Gregg Hill

"Kevin Weilbacher" <kweilbacMVP@gte.net> wrote in message
news:OOAxKMRFFHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>I hope you are not expecting to simply use the XP SP2 firewall for laptop
>protection when outside the LAN. Although the SP2 firewall does help, it's
>only blocking one way. You should look into adding another solution for
>your remote laptops.
>
> But the other question is -- why would you want to turn off the XP SP2
> firewall when inside the LAN?
>
> --
> Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
> "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
>
>
>
> "Gregg Hill" <bogus@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:%23OIed8QFFHA.2676@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am going to set up a new SBS 2003 server and I want the firewall for
>> all XP SP2 workstations to be off for LAN desktops and laptops. There are
>> several users with laptops running XP Pro SP2 with firewalls turned on.
>>
>> If I set up a GPO to turn off the XP firewall, what happens to the
>> firewall when they are NOT connected to the LAN? Ideally, it would be off
>> on the LAN and on when out of the office. Can that be done?
>>
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Gregg Hill
>>
>
>

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