Cannot Enable Firewall

[Bill]

Referred here by Kent England. I am unable to enable XP
Home Firewall. I have three computers running on a home
network, 1 XP Pro, 2 XP Home. Each are connected to a
single router. One of the XP Home computers has the
fireall wall enable option grayed out and as a result I
am unable to enable the XP Firewall. I have Perfomed the
following:

1)Checked ICS/ICF, status is started and startup is set
to automatic.
2)Checed the Dependencies of ICS/ICF: Application Layer
Gateway, Network Connections, Network Location Awareness,
Remote Access Connection Manager. Each is started and
set to manual, switch all to automatic with no luck.

Help appreciated. Bill

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

The firewall box will be gray if the connection is part of a bridge, the
bridge, or group policy is restricting you.

 

[Bill]

Thanks for responding Ken. You've given me a lead, I'll
see if I can figure out what setting may be causing
this. Thank you, Bill

-----Original Message-----
The firewall box will be gray if the connection is part of a bridge, the
bridge, or group policy is restricting you.

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Ken Wickes [MSFT]
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Referred here by Kent England. I am unable to enable XP
Home Firewall. I have three computers running on a home
network, 1 XP Pro, 2 XP Home. Each are connected to a
single router. One of the XP Home computers has the
fireall wall enable option grayed out and as a result I
am unable to enable the XP Firewall. I have Perfomed the
following:

1)Checked ICS/ICF, status is started and startup is set
to automatic.
2)Checed the Dependencies of ICS/ICF: Application Layer
Gateway, Network Connections, Network Location Awareness,
Remote Access Connection Manager. Each is started and
set to manual, switch all to automatic with no luck.

Help appreciated. Bill

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