- Help: Lost Internet Access & Firewall Disabled by Group Policy
- Posted by Pete on February 5th, 2006
Hi:
We have two XP Pro SP2 systems behind a router on a cable network.
Overnight one of the systems developed a problem and cannot communicate with
the internet. I believe the hardware is OK, because the computer can access
shared folders and remote desktop communicates with the other system on the
LAN, but fails to communicate with systems on the WAN.
It is the systems, my kids use so I have not looked at it lately. I found
that the security center was disabled which I re-enabled successfully. The
windows firewall was disabled by group policy. I don't know how this
happened? How do I regain control over the windows firewall? I have never
adjusted the policies on this computer, and don't know how they would
change. I am running McAffee AntiVirus 8.0 on both systems.
I re-entered all the TCP/IP settings, but the system still can't log onto
the router by ipnumber?
Repairing the network connectioin does not help nor does it generate any
error message. The symptoms are that something may be blocking internet
access, I just don't know what?
TIA,
Pete
- Posted by WTC on February 5th, 2006
"Pete" <pharring@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
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To access Group Policy Object editor, type "gpedit.msc" in the Run dialog
box. Then navigate to the following:
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > Network
Connections > Windows Firewall.
Set everything to "Not Configured" for the Windows Firewall's objects. If
everything is set to "Not Configured" then edit the registry at this
location:
[HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft]
Delete the registry key "WindowsFirewall"
--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
- Posted by Pete on February 6th, 2006
"WTC" <bcrawforjr(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Policy editor had everything set to notconfigured.
Thanks,
Pete
- Posted by WTC on February 6th, 2006
"Pete" <pharring@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
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You're welcome Pete.
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William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
- Posted by Ramesh, MS-MVP on February 6th, 2006
Reset the Windows Firewall Policy settings to defaults:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/resetfwpol.htm
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Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
"Pete" <pharring@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
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Hi:
We have two XP Pro SP2 systems behind a router on a cable network.
Overnight one of the systems developed a problem and cannot communicate with
the internet. I believe the hardware is OK, because the computer can access
shared folders and remote desktop communicates with the other system on the
LAN, but fails to communicate with systems on the WAN.
It is the systems, my kids use so I have not looked at it lately. I found
that the security center was disabled which I re-enabled successfully. The
windows firewall was disabled by group policy. I don't know how this
happened? How do I regain control over the windows firewall? I have never
adjusted the policies on this computer, and don't know how they would
change. I am running McAffee AntiVirus 8.0 on both systems.
I re-entered all the TCP/IP settings, but the system still can't log onto
the router by ipnumber?
Repairing the network connectioin does not help nor does it generate any
error message. The symptoms are that something may be blocking internet
access, I just don't know what?
TIA,
Pete
