Free Firewall question

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:06:10 +0000, Gordon wrote:

> Does anyone know of a FREE firewall that will allow both ICS and Remote
> Desktop other than the Windows XP firewall?

ZoneAlarm (www.zonelabs.com), Kerio Personal Firewall (www.kerio.com) and
all firewalls that I'm aware of allow these to work, it's just a matter of
setting up the rules correctly. For remote desktop to work, you have to
open port 3389.

If you are having problems with ICS, this article may help:

How to Troubleshoot Internet Connection Sharing Problems
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=238135
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Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:41:32 +0000, Gordon wrote:

> Afraid both of those (in the FREE version) do not allow either! (They do
> in the PAID version)

Something is wrong with your firewall rules, not the firewall. I have used
both ZoneAlarm and Kerio with Remote Desktop.
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Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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Hi,

Have you ensured remote desktop is enable in the firewall setting and also
ensure the service is enabled in services? Another thing, are you on the
same subnet or different ones? If on different ones, you need to change the
scope to custom to allow access. Don`t know if you have checked those, but
I know its easily missed and not thought of.

Jeff

"Gordon" <gordonbp1@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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> Tom Porterfield wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:41:32 +0000, Gordon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Afraid both of those (in the FREE version) do not allow either! (They do
>>>in the PAID version)
>>
>>
>> Something is wrong with your firewall rules, not the firewall. I have
>> used
>> both ZoneAlarm and Kerio with Remote Desktop.
>
> Well I've not been able to discover EASILY how to allow remote desktop,
> but neither allow ICS! I need one that does both!