SP2 Firewall

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Robbie Niblock

Hi

Is it possible to open up the following range of ports on SP2 firewall
either manually or by group policy?

15000 - 15200 TCP
15000 - 15200 UDP

Thanks in advance.

Robbie
 
Torgeir Bakken (MVP) said:
Hi,

To use a BAT file and the NETSH.EXE FIREWALL command see the post by
Doug Knox MS-MVP here:

sp2 Firewall Port Range
http://forum.iamnotageek.com/history/topic.php/656490-1.html

A VBScript version:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...neral/msg/35c07cd4b157e69a?dmode=source&hl=en
Click to expand...

Thankyou for the reply. At present I have a XP SP2 Firewall GPO that
switches the firewall on and greys out the button to disable it in control
panel. I've also defined some port exceptions within the GPO such as
enabling Remote Assistance, Symantec Corporate management etc.

If I use the batch file as part of the domain login script, will it add the
port ranges considering the group policy is already dictating the firewall
settings? In other words - will the batch file just add to the port
exceptions already defined?

One other thing - the first link you gave me seems to be dead :)

Thanks for you time.
 
Robbie said:
Thankyou for the reply. At present I have a XP SP2 Firewall GPO that
switches the firewall on and greys out the button to disable it in control
panel. I've also defined some port exceptions within the GPO such as
enabling Remote Assistance, Symantec Corporate management etc.

If I use the batch file as part of the domain login script, will it add the
port ranges considering the group policy is already dictating the firewall
settings? In other words - will the batch file just add to the port
exceptions already defined?
Click to expand...

I don't know, try it out by running it manually, it will not be any
different than running it in a GPO based logon or startup script.

One other thing - the first link you gave me seems to be dead :)
Click to expand...

Here it is at Google newsgroup archive:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...admin/msg/9e2fc85c4055d43d?dmode=source&hl=en
 
Torgeir Bakken (MVP) said:
I don't know, try it out by running it manually, it will not be any
different than running it in a GPO based logon or startup script.



Here it is at Google newsgroup archive:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...admin/msg/9e2fc85c4055d43d?dmode=source&hl=en
Click to expand...

Thankyou. I assume it will add to the list of port exceptions since I can
manually add to them through the control panel Windows Firewall icon.

I'll give this a go tomorrow morning - thanks for the assistance.
 
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