OK, at first I thought it was a Norton 360 problem so I deleted Norton 360. The Windows firewall is no longer being controlled by it.
Windows firewall is turned off, it's a public location, printer and file sharing is turned on, discovery is on, I reloaded the default settings for the firewall, the owner is administrator which my login is set for. Didn't matter if the Windows firewall was turned on or off, I still got the error message above.
I used to have D shared but took it off. Now when I try to create the share I get the error message above.
I have another Win 7 Pro computer with the same settings as above and I can share everything just fine.
Any ideas on how I can fix this would be greatly appreciated.
I found something nice that fixed my problem...
See solution on: Firewall and sharing folders
I did what he recommend:
export firewall polices from a Windows 7 computer that does not have this problem. (Option on the right most panel of the 3 panel screen for Windows Firewall - advanced)
Copy the .wfw file you exported to your bad firewall computer.
Use the "import Policy" option in Windows Firewall to replace the firewall policy on the bad computer.
It fixed my issue. Firewall is working - so are home groups.
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Good Afternoon, never seen this one before in my years of working with Windows but im at a loss to try and find the solution to this one.
When users log on to their desktops as Non-Admin accounts, there are particular applications they need to run as different users due to the way some of the systems work. A load of system policies where updated for security at group policy level however now something strange is happening when the user initiates a RunAs by holding the shift key down or if they attempt to remote desktop to another machine, the NLA Windows Security box that prompts for credentials takes 5/10 minutes to appear.
When the user hovers over the taskbar icon, then over the window without clicking the Windows Security box displays as full screen missing the username and password box but when you click on it nothing happens and just disappears. Eventually after a few minutes the windows security box will appear and can log in as normal however the users jump into systems adhoc and cant be waiting for minutes at a time to put their credentials in which could cost a lot of user down time during the day.
I have tried looking at the security log but as you can imagine its filled with all sorts and trying to locate one specifically without knowing the issue is difficult at best. Has anyone had this issue before that can point me in any direction. I have to assume this is permission related on the devices trying to access something locally because when i log on to the devices with an account in the administrators group all these issues disappear and the windows security works as normal. Also, if they click "Run as administrator" they get the UAC credential box so i don't believe this is UAC related as its working by design just anything with "Windows Security" prompts. I should point out that whilst this is waiting - the File Explorer icon highlights under "Run As" like the explorer is waiting to do something.
OS - Windows 10 Pro
Acc - Domain Joined
Group policy enabled
Local Policy Disabled
Update: 21H2
Never seen this before but hoping one of you legends has!
Dev
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For anyone reading this - although bizzare as it is...
It turns out it was McAfee Disk Encryption - there was a bug in the local FDE security provider causing it to hang every time it was accessed.
Update your McAfee FDE Client/Agent to the latest version
When running appengine tests with windows10 I continually get firewall popups. Since the origin path of the file making the call changes on every test I get popups everytime.
Is there a way to eliminate the firewall popups without fully disabling the firewall.
Yes, you can disable the popups. In the Windows Firewall control panel, go to Advanced Settings, then select Windows Firewall Properties.
For each relevant firewall profile, select Customize from the Settings box. Change the "Display a notification" option to "No".
(In a domain environment, you can also do this via group policy if you need to reconfigure many machines at once.)
I was following this new edx course on Big data on Apache spark. For setting up environment I was told to install virtual-box and vagrant. After installing box and vagrant I restarted my laptop. My modem was working fine, Windows was showing Ethernet connection active but when I try to open any browser and search it was reported that can't connect to internet. I tried uninstalling both box and vagrant but no use. I even restored my system to state when these both applications were not installed but still I can't access internet. What should I do? I'm using Windows 8.1
Just googled a bit and found this:
http://thomascgreen.com/tech/?p=26
Seems to be a working solution.
In any case this is how I got it working again. First go to:
Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings
Right click on the connection you are having a problem with. In my
case it was “Wireless Network Connection”. On this menu select
“Properties”.
Notice there is a line here that says “Virtual Box Bridged Networking
Driver”. This is Vagrant watching the connection, is my guess.
When I unchecked the box in front of “Virtual Box Bridged Networking
Driver” my internet connection started working again.
Now at this point I started using Google to find out what was going
on. I never found a solution or reason. After searching I rechecked
the box. And everything started working again.
I would also advice to disable/enable all network cards, from the "network connections" panel. (right click on the networks, open the "Network center" and then go to to "update parameters" (I don't have the exact english labels, my Windows isn't in English). It may fix the issue.
I am trying to install and run my Windows Store app on a real Surface RT device. I have installed the Remote Debugger for ARM and its running, with no authentication on 4018.
Visual Studio fails to see the device, fails to connect and deploy.
In Windows on the desktop, I cannot ping and my port-query tool says 4018 is down, the host is unreachable.
What can I do? Why didn't they just use USB like Windows Phone development?
Microsoft don't tell you this, but you need to configure some firewall rules for the device to become visible on the network. Of course, you won't find anything by searching for "firewall" from the Start screen, but it can be found as a Snap-in for MMC.
You could turn the firewall off for the Private Profile, i.e. your local, private home network, since your home router already has a firewall and the one in Windows is just there to annoy people; cause family members to call and interrupt your dinner while they struggle to get things working on their budget new Windows 8 laptops (with no touch screen), or you could set the right rules manually.
However there's an easier way, turn on the oh-so-discoverable - especially on a tablet that's not even supposed to even have a desktop - "Network discovery and file sharing" by opening Windows (file) Explorer and clicking on the Network node on the left. A bar will pop up to remind you that Windows is getting in the way and that you can click it to make stuff work again; this configures the firewall for you.
Note that turning on "Network discovery..." via the option under Control Panel > Network Sharing Blah > Instantly-forgettable Name doesn't work. No one knows why.
By now you should be able to ping you device and the port is open, just in time for your battery to have gone flat.
Important Edit
Today, its not working again and pop-up doesn't appear again so I cannot try the same trick. My port query tool says the port is not open (it was the other day).
So I tried this, but its not working for me.
# Elevated Command Prompt #
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="RemoteDebugger" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP port=4018
That says 'Ok.' but the port isn't open.
So I went into MMC and added the Firewall snap-in and its enabled itself again for the Private profile.
Then I noticed that it doesn't turn off. If you flip it to Off and hit Apply, it does nothing!!
There are now two inbound rules for the Remote Debugger, the one I setup and another for the executable. Still, doesn't work.
This thread:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_rt-networking/possible-windows-firewall-bug-on-surface-rt-blocks/caa8b40c-dacc-4d19-a751-7a04f8ef00e4
There's an answer stating:
Open Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.
Click "Windows Firewall Properties" in the main frame
In each of the three tabs of Domain, Private and Public Profile:
1) Note that: If you change "Firewall state", or change "Inbound connections" to "Allow" (inbound connections that do not match a rule are allowed), it is not going to work. The change is immediately lost after you click "OK" or "Apply" to close the dialog box.
2) What you need to do is: click Protected network connections: "Customize", it will show another dialog box, in which you can deselect some network connections. In this case, you can uncheck "Wireless" and leave "Bluetooth" on.
Once you finish step 3, Action Center will pop up an alert, saying Windows Firewall is off or not using recommended settings. You can ignore this alert, or turn it off in "Change Action Center settings".
Though someone on that thread confirm it had worked, it hasn't for me.
Luke
Im developing a website using VS2008 on Windows 7. I am running a VM with IE6 on it and want to test that the site works ok on IE6. On the VM IE6 browser I type http://192.168.0.100/default.aspx since my router gave the windows host that ip address but the browser errors with : Cannot find server or DNS Error
I can ping the host though through a command window.
Could this be a firewall issue on Windows7 and how can I open it up to allow VM browsing of the host website?
The most dangerouse but simplest way to test this theory:
Open the "Network and Sharing Center". If you look at the left panel at the button there should be a "Windows Firewall" under the "See also" section.
On the left again there should now appear a "Turn Windows Firewall on or off"
So you can now quickly test and see if it is in fact your firewall blocking it.
I would not keep the firewall off, and would consider plugging out the network cable before I do this.
Hope it helps
Rihan