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Old 09-28-2006   #4 (permalink)
Richard G. Harper


 
 

Re: Might be a good idea to disable Windows Firewall altogether when in an Active Directory Domain

No IPSec, and all forms of name resolution (NetBIOS, WINS and DNS) are
supported.

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"Edward Ray" <ewray@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:A78503D1-EDF3-4493-872B-2EE0336BB849@microsoft.com...
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> "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
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>>I haven't had a single problem with the Vista firewall in my AD domain.
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> I would be interested in what your configuration is. Do you use IPSec
> encryption (I do)? Do you use NetBIOS (I do not)? Did you upgrade from
> and existing Windows XP SP2 install?
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> This firewall makes it very challenging to troubleshoot problems, so I
> find it best to disable it until you have everything working right, then
> enable.
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