Firewall not using domain profile

[Mike]

I have the group policy setup on my domain that diables the windows firewall
when logged into the domain. This policy has been working perfectly except
for on my new laptop. It has been joined to the domain, and has applied the
group policy, except the windows firewall says: "Windows firewall is using
your non-domain settings"
I know there is apolicy that I cxan control the non domain settings, but I
do no want to turn that one on. Any idea why it is using the non-domain
policy.

XP sp2..all current updates.

Mike

 

[kj]

Running from a wireless connection?

 

[Mike]

Wireless is disabled...Running from LAN

Running from a wireless connection?

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hi,

Most like a DNS suffix issue:

From
The Cable Guy - May 2004
Network Determination Behavior for Network-Related Group Policy Settings
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0504.mspx

<quote>
To apply this behavior to Windows Firewall settings:

() If the connection-specific DNS suffix of a currently connected
connection on the computer that is not PPP or SLIP-based (such as
an Ethernet or 802.11 wireless network adapter) matches the value
of the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group
Policy\History\NetworkName registry entry, Windows Firewall uses
the domain profile.

() If the connection-specific DNS suffix of a currently connected
connection on the computer that is not PPP or SLIP-based does not
match the value of the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group
Policy\History\NetworkName registry entry, Windows Firewall uses
the standard profile.


You can determine the connection-specific DNS suffixes of the
currently connected connections on the computer from the display
of the ipconfig command issued from a command prompt.

</quote>

Read the Cable Guy article for more about this.

 

[kj]

Hmmm. Is the firewall enabled for all networks?, Any third party firewall
products included with that new laptop, like maybe Symantec?