Re: Windows firewall on clients

Thanks Dave, actually I was wanting to run Zonealarm on the clients as it is
easy to configure and a bit more powerful. I will follow your suggestion and
see how I fare.

Thanks

"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:

> This is controlled by a GPO - open the Group Policy Management Console and
> you'll see the "Small Business Server Windows Firewall" policy.
>
> It's recommended to leave the firewall on to help protect internal clients
> from anything that gets by your perimeter defenses. AFAIK there's no
> benefit to turning it off - can you work around your issue with
> configuration rather than disabling the firewall?
>
>
> "Peter G" <PeterG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C6FB755A-E220-4F2F-95C1-BBE2464D56D9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I have set up SBS 2003 on my home network as a learning experience.
> > After running through the initial setup tasks all is running well. I have
> > one setting which I would like to change - all PCs have the Windows
> > Firewall
> > turned on by default, and the setting cant be modified locally. Obviously
> > this is some sort of default policy. Could someone please point me to the
> > relevent console where I can edit this policy.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Peter G
>
>
>
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