who is messing with my settings

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Hello,

To check if the company policy is respectd I have to ( from time to time)
connect to users computers (Windows XP Pro SP2). For that I use to connect to
hidden shared directory (C$, D$ and so on).
If one week before it worked for all computers now for some reason it does
not. The users have limited account so they could not change the setting.

1) The first step is that the computer does not respond to ping
computer_name or ping computer_ip
2) I had checked in firewall setting windows ( under ICMP) the option which
does allow the computer to response to ping. The ping computer_name is stil
not working
3) Also I can't connect to hidden shares.
4) If I shutdown the firewall all is OK.

It's like for some reason the Windows firewall is messing up.

Can you, please, help me with some advice about waht should I do to connect
to hidden shares ( whithout shutting the Windows firewall)?
Thank you!
 
A few things to check:

You could try connecting to the shares using the IP address instead of the
machine name. It's possible you have a name-resolution problem on your
network.

If connecting with Explorer, try
NET USE <driveletter> \\IPaddress\sharename /user:username password
instead.

Check that an exception exists for File and Printer Sharing in the firewall,
and that nothing else is blocking ports 139/445.

HST, I would question the advisability of leaving Administrative Shares
open. They are a tremendous security risk. With them active, ANY process with
Administrative priveleges on ANY computer has access to the entire disk of
EVERY computer in the domain.. A perfect way for viruses/Trojans to
replicate! Better to remove them by way of a registry patch, find a different
way to perform the task.
 
You could try connecting to the shares using the IP address instead of the
machine name. It's possible you have a name-resolution problem on your
network.
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Thank you for your response!

It does not work with the IP adresses.
 
To access any share on the computer the Windows Firewall needs to be enabled
to allow file and print sharing from the IP address of the computer you are
trying to access from. If you are managing Windows Firewall via Group Policy
you need to do that in the domain profile. You also can enable logging for
the Windows Firewall on a computer you are having trouble accessing and the
log will show what traffic is being dropped. The command netsh firewall show
config will show basic Windows Firewall configuration. --- Steve
 
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:17:01 -0700, alex
Thank you for your response!
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It does not work with the IP adresses.
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Could it be that "too many" other PCs are connecting into these
workstations, which uses up the 4-5 (XP Home, WinME) or 9-10 (NT
Workstation, Win2k Pro, XP Pro, Win95/98) allowed connections?

Are the IP addresses assigned by some DHCP server, or locked down?

Are there LAN cabling issues, or users that disconnect the LAN?

Are the PCs running Windows at the time?

Are users able to get into CMOS setup and disable the LAN adapter?


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