Jeff

Ed,
Gettin all wrapped up in this huh?
If you look at Windows Firewall; it's easy to setup now
And it's easy to use;
Jeff

"Edward Ray" <ewray@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
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>> No IPSec, and all forms of name resolution (NetBIOS, WINS and DNS) are
>> supported.
>>
> I do not use NetBIOS/WINS, due to security risks as wells as not necessary
> (no Win9x or NT boxes in my domain). I IPSec encrypt ALL SMB/CIFS port
> 445 traffic using PKI authentication. As I said before, it takes a few
> boots to get it right when I had RC 1 5600; for 5728 I just disabled the
> firewall at first then re-enabled it. Having custom GPOs for Wista will
> help in the future.