Turning off Firewall

[Guest]

We're running Xp professional on a windiws server 2003. We need to shut off
the XP firewall in order to test an issue with our backup software. On the XP
windows firewall general tab, we are unable to select the Off radio button.
At the top of the general tab, it states "for your security, some settings
are controlled by group policy."

How do we shut off the firewall?

Thanks

 

[MowGreen [MVP]]

Access to the Firewall setting may be controlled by Group Policy.
If so, contact the Admin ... if not, go to Start, Run, type in regedit
Click OK
Navigate to the following key :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile

In the right frame under Name will be EnableFirewall. Double click
EnableFirewall and set the Value to 0
That will disable it.

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2006]
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[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Access to the Firewall setting may be controlled by Group Policy.
If so, contact the Admin ... if not, go to Start, Run, type in regedit
Click OK
Navigate to the following key :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile


In the right frame under Name will be EnableFirewall. Double click
EnableFirewall and set the Value to 0
That will disable it.

Not completely if this is an AD domain computer.

If so, the same needs to be done for the DomainProfile registry branch:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess
\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\DomainProfile