SP2 Firewall oddity

[Mark K Vallevand]

I disabled the Firewall in Target Designer, but left the checkbox "Notifies
when Windows Firewall blocks a program" set. When I try to file browse from
the XPe image to other machines, a popup says ntkernel (or some such thing)
is blocked.

I disabled the firewall in TD. Why are outbound connections blocked? I can
remote desktop into the image, but can't file browse out.

Does the checkbox "Notifies when Windows Firewall blocks a program" enable
something even when the Firewall is disabled?

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Mark K Vallevand (e-mail address removed)

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[KM]

Mark,

I don't have a good answer for you (maybe someone else has) but I recall seeing a message on one of public newsgroups a while ago
where someone said that in order to turn off the SP2 firewall *completely* you have to set the EnableFirewall=1,
DoNotAllowExceptions=0 (not necessary, in fact) and DisableNotifications=1.

The option you asked about is mapped to
[HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\DomainProfile],"DisableNotifications" and
[HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile],"DisableNotifications" keys.

So, you may want to post your question to a XP Pro newsgroup (security, general, etc.). You may want to rephrase it to mention the
reg.keys instead of the setting of Firewall component of XPe.