Questions tagged [windows-firewall]

"Windows Firewall" refers to the built in client firewall utility that ships with the Windows operating system. (It was previously named the Internet Connection Firewall.) By default, all Windows operating systems since Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 have shipped with this client.

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"Windows Firewall" refers to the built in client firewall utility that ships with the Windows operating system. (It was previously named the Internet Connection Firewall.) By default, all Windows operating systems since Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 have shipped with this client.

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Install azure vm without Microsoft firewall

We have a firewall solution in place. Is there anyway to build an azure server without the windows firewall? Or at a minimum have it turned off? The build is being done by powershell. Also currently looking into Templates, but right now is…
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blocking ip address with netsh filter

i am trying to block ip address on my machine by doing the following in cmd netsh ipsec add policy name=IPSystem netsh ipsec static add filter filterlist=BlackList srcaddr=74.356.69.108 dstaddr=me&& but it seems the IP address did not blocked what…
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What does "Security" mean in a GPO for Inbound Firewall Rules?

My environment is Windows Server 2012 R2 AD DCs with Windows 10 Pro clients. I have small, simple GPO which sets up Inbound Firewall Rules in: Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Windows Firewall with…
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Microsoft MPI unable to connect (The RPC server is unavailable.)

I have two machines both with MS MPI 7.1 installed, one called SERVER and one called COMPUTE. The machines are set up on LAN in a simple windows workgroup (No DA), and both have an account with the same name and password. Both are running the…
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Windows Server Wail2ban and Folder Sharing not working together - Error 4625 no IP

I have a new install of Windows Server 2012 on a VM and I intend to use Wail2ban (https://github.com/glasnt/wail2ban) to try and block people attacking the server. I have successfully added Wail2ban and I have this working now, but it certainly was…
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How to block CIFS (mounting) access for certain users in Windows Server 2012 R2?

There is a CIFS server running (out of my direct control). It only accepts incoming connections from the other server in question, running on Windows Server 2012 R2, but besides that the CIFS server does not (seem) to care about other access…
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Restricting Windows server RDP access to VPN

I want to configure a remote server (Windows 2012) to allow only access using RDP via VPN. Therefore I should restrict access to the public IP of the server and only allow the private IP access. In addition I would need the port 80 to be open for…
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How are people accessing my server when I have the firewall locked down by IP?

I have several public servers that we remote in to through remote desktop services. I have Remote Desktop - User Mode (tcpip-in) set to only allows specific remote ip addresses through. I have checked and the windows firewall is enabled. I have all…
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How do I configure the Windows Firewall to allow specific computers to connect to a SQL Server Instance?

I'm trying to allow only specific computers on my domain to connect to a SQL Server instance but I appear to be inadvertently blocking all computers from connecting. When I go in to configure the firewall on the server hosting the database, after…
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Allow Application in Windows 7 Firewall on per-NIC basis

I want to allow an application on a Windows 7 Professional System to only be accessible through the OpenVPN TAP adapter by configuring the Windows Firewall accordingly. Unfortunately I cannot find an option therefor. I found out that it is possible…
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Active FTP client blocked by Windows Firewall on Windows 7

Possible Duplicate: Active FTP client blocked by Windows Firewall on Windows 7 I have an application that runs as a service and contains an FTP client. It needs to connect to an FTP server that only supports Active FTP. When I attempt to get a…
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Windows firewall blocking inbound port 9000 (xdebug), even though inbound rule created

I have been trying to allow computer A (LAMP with xdebug configured) connect to computer B (Eclipse IDE with xdebug) via port 9000. Both are on running on my local network. I created an inbound rule to allow connections to port 9000, but connections…
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On Azure Windows VM, Why do some ports open fine and others do not?

I am trying to set up FileMaker Server on a new Azure Windows 2012 VM (not classic). The step that has me flummoxed is opening the ports. I have created the inbound end points for the three required ports in the Azure console and created the 3…
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Granular Windows firewall rule control

Is there a way using group policy (or some other built in mechanism) to apply firewall rules in such a way that a subset of the rules are locked and cannot be changed or overridden, but another subset can? For example I want to lock down the Core…
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Whitelisting only specific ip range or program windows firewall

I want my windows firewall to block all of the connections, except connections who are RDP connections (to the RDP port), smb (smb port?), and from specific IP ranges. I've tried to add a rule that allows those IP ranges, the ports and the programs…
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