Windows XP Firewall

[Guest]

It there anyway of turning windows xp firewall on or off without being a
Administrator. I've tried a power user but no good

 

[Malke]

It there anyway of turning windows xp firewall on or off without being a
Administrator. I've tried a power user but no good

No. Why would you want a user to be able to do this? What is the problem
you are trying to solve by disabling the firewall?


Malke

 

[Guest]

Hello

I distrubute microsoft patches thru one PC to all the machines on the
network,when the xp firewall is on on the xp machines the software complains
about connecting to this machine,when it if off I have no problem?

 

[Malke]

Hello

I distrubute microsoft patches thru one PC to all the machines on the
network,when the xp firewall is on on the xp machines the software complains
about connecting to this machine,when it if off I have no problem?

I still don't think you want to give your users this ability. Post your
question in one of the server newsgroups, not forgetting to give details
such as your server operating system and your patch method (WSUS?) to
them. I'm sure there is a common way to do this but I'm afraid I don't
have experience with setting up WSUS, etc. The server gurus will know.

microsoft.public.windows.server.general
microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs


Malke

 

[Steven L Umbach]

The user will need to be a local administrator to disable the Windows
Firewall or change it's settings. As Malke suggested WSUS would be an option
to look at if for some reason you need to approve and distribute Windows
Updates from a server that could download them from Microsoft. The then
client computers could be setup for Automatic Updates and the end user would
not need to get involved or you could configure the client computers to use
Automatic Updates and then each computer go directly to the internet for the
updates assuming you have the bandwidth. You need a Windows Server operating
system to use WSUS. Microsoft Small Business Server is surprisingly
affordable of you have the need for a server operating system and the built
in Wizards make if fairly easy to setup and maintain.

Steve

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx --- Windows Server
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