How to add a System Service Exception (Windows XP Firewall)

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How do you add a system service exception to the windows xp
professional sp2 firewall. Just like the "File and Printer Sharing" or
"Remote Desktop" preconfigured exceptions. Thanks!
 
How do you add a system service exception to the windows xp
professional sp2 firewall. Just like the "File and Printer Sharing" or
"Remote Desktop" preconfigured exceptions. Thanks!
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Group policy?
 
No to group policy.

You have to know the protocol (IE. TCP/UDP/IP etc) and the port it uses,
then you understand the exceptions area of the firewall. Personally I use the
firewall in my antivirus for that. I turn Windows firewall off. The Windows
firewall ships wide open and all the hacks know which ports are available.
 
What exactly do you mean?




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Thanks for the links. But neither of them helped. I want to create a
"System Service Exception" for the firewall. If you open up the
exceptions list of Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 SP2 you will see a
"File and Printer Sharing" item in the list. This is setup by default.
If you edit it you will see it has a list of ports (4 in total)
associated with it. The dialog title is "Edit a Service". I would like
to create one of these. So I can have 1 item in the exception list
that is linked to multiple ports. The only think I have been able to
find out is that they are called a "System Service Exception" but
can't figure out how to create them.
 
Thanks for the links. But neither of them helped. I want to create a
"System Service Exception" for the firewall. If you open up the
exceptions list of Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 SP2 you will see a
"File and Printer Sharing" item in the list. This is setup by default.
If you edit it you will see it has a list of ports (4 in total)
associated with it. The dialog title is "Edit a Service". I would like
to create one of these. So I can have 1 item in the exception list
that is linked to multiple ports. The only think I have been able to
find out is that they are called a "System Service Exception" but
can't figure out how to create them.
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Did you look in your policy editor?
 
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