firewall

Currently my smb is wide open to the internet, I can simply key in my server up address on file browser and I can access these files ; without VPN connection. How can I close the smb to the internet and only users whom are connected to the server using VPN and LAN can access these files? How do...

Windows 21h2 22000652 When I update manually then run compatibility there a fix re: bits. If I leave it on auto and run compatibility it is fine. Is this typical? You can have one or the other but not both, it appears. I would rather run it manually more often than automatically does less...

I have access only to the Linux machine, and I need to check if windows updates are not blocked on the network, is there any sets of IPs/Domains that I could ping or any other way to verify it?

I have been using Win 11 for quite a while now and have had few problems with it. I have one nagging bit however. When I put in BinisoftWindows Firewall Control 6.8.1.0, I lose my network connectivity. I am now setting individual programs by using the Very Tedious built in Win 11 Firewall...

Assume I have a Windows 7 system. The Firewall is completely disabled or corrupt. So when another computer in (Private Workgroup) LAN tries to connect to this Windows 7 system what should happen? Is the default (e.g. for File Sharing) ALLOW ALL or BLOCK ALL File Sharing requests from other...

About 2 weeks ago, I noticed that the slider switch on my Emsisoft AntiMalware home security, which activates/deactivates the Windows Defender firewall, was in the 'off' position. Thinking it strange, I set it to 'on'. More strange though, as 10 seconds later, it reset itself to 'off'. Further...

On a computer with Windows 7 I started the built-in Firewall dialog. Much to my surprise the Firewall does NOT show the full, usual firewall setup dialog but only a part of it. It looks like as the left dialog in the attached snapshot. If I click on the button "Use recommended settings"...

Hi We relocated our server to another town/city and now our sstp VPN doesnt work, all that has changed is a new external IP address, we have put a NAT rule in for 443 in the new firewall at the new office. Is this a certificate issue? Do you have to tell the certificate which exteral IP address...

I recently updated to Windows 11, and today I had to install a new firewall. To start The installation I had to type in administrator username and password, however no input lines showes on the screen. The only possibility I have is to exit the administrator login screen. The other weird thing...

Just updated from Windows 10. WiFi works from home but I am unable to connect to a public wifi or personal hotspot. I have tried every troubleshooting guide i can find but the issue persists. In the network & settings section I have the following error: No Internet access: your device can only...

I have a Windows 10 S laptop purchased this year. Today I checked the Windows Defender settings - Firewall and Anti-Virus is turned on but Web Protection shows "No Providers". There does not seem to be a provision to select or add any service provision to “defend” the Web. I am thinking that as...

Hi, i have a need to disable http/80 in for access to the server from outside/internet. It must work for the internal network. Is this even possible to achieve in the windows advanced firewall? I do not have the option to do this in our hardware firewall. /L

Hi, I follow this tutorial How To Allow Remote Desktop connections from outside your home or office network to allow my machine accessed by other. It really works when if the computer that access it is in the same network as mine, And doesn't work when we use another network. I use can you see...

I am running security and vulnerability scans against a few Windows Server and I cannot figure out how to resolve or mitigate DCE/RPC and MSRPC Services Enumeration Reporting issues. Here is the scan result slightly altered to protect my network:

Every once in a while I try the Google Chrome cast feature from several different Computers and it has never worked. I am able to cast from the windows feature but not from Google chrome. I also tried it from Mac O/S and also did not work. All give the same issue. Which is that no device can be...

Would Comodo Firewall be an improvement on Windows 10 firewall and should I disable Windows firewall to run Comodo FW?

I'm on a new computer which arrived 3 days ago. When I first loaded it Windows Update downloaded and installed a couple of updates without problem, but now it's stuck. I had 3 outstanding updates: 2021-01 KB4589212 and 2021-03 KB5000802, plus Feature Update to Windows 10 version 20H2 which has...

I have a Lenovo N22 laptop running a fully updated Windows 10 Pro (20H2). A week ago I had a Netgear router running with a private class C LAN IP address range. The router was at address 204.107.91.254. Everything on my network worked fine, including the Lenovo. The Netgear router turned out to...

Originally, I thought that all of the network traffic in a guest OS directly goes through the host OS and whatever firewall regulation is on the host OS, will also be applied onto the guest OS. But it turns out that this is completely false. As far as I understand it, the network-relationship...

Hi Support, I have encountered a problem when using the Windows 10 Hotspot feature. When I connect to the hotspot using another Win 10 system everything works ok except it blocks the FTP protocol. I have an application that connects to my host provider using FTP, it has run with no problems...