Questions tagged [windows-firewall]
Windows Firewall is a basic port filter built into Microsoft Windows, starting with Windows XP SP2.
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Local Group Policy firewall rules not listed in GPO firewall
I have 100+ rules defined as per LGP. I can see all these rules both in Local Windows Firewall in RO mode as well as in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\FirewallRules. I also can see ...
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I can't add user to the Administrators group
Access is denied occurs if I want to add a user to the Administrators group.
If I allow Outbound connections for Domain Profile, adding the user works.
What firewall rule do I need, what port to open, ...
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I cant set up two different network categories for two independent network interfaces on windows 11
I have to set two different network categories public and private to two different lan adapters. There are multiple firewall rules that open ports that only shall apply to the LAN.
Whenever I execute ...
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How to block port 135 on Windows 11 using Windows Firewall?
I was able to create a rule to block port 135 using Windows Firewall. However when looking at nmap output. The port is still open.
How can I successfully block this port on Windows 11?
Thanks
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Block MQTT port from windows firewall
I want to block any MQTT transaction from my laptop. I am using port 8883 as mqtt port as i am using TLS.
I tried to change the firewall outbound rules and added a new rule to block the connection for ...
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Accessing wireguard VPN endpoint works from WSL2 with mirrored but not from Windows 11 host
I am using networkingMode=mirrored in WSL2 with a couple of wireguard VPNs on the host Windows. 2 wireguard connections (both on wg0) go to two different servers for different sets of 10.x networks (...
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Windows Firewall on WS2016 doesn't accept IPv6 loopback IP
I came to a problem when Windows Firewall on Windows Server 2016 is unable to set IPv6 loopback address to an inbound rule - Scope - Local IP address. The error is:
An error occurred while verifying ...
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ICMPv6 Windows Firewall
I've added a simple custom incoming rule in my Windows 10's Firewall to allow all ICMPv6 packets without any limitation, but still https://ipv6-test.com/ reports as filtered.
If I disable the firewall,...
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How to allow only requests from ethernet connection to application
I have a Spring boot application that for now accepts requests from all connections on port 8443, Wi-Fi and ethernet. The application runs on a laptop with Windows 10.
I want to add firewall rules to ...
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Only allowing specific IP for DHCP OFFER. Blocking all other IPs with Windows Firewall
I`m living in a dorm and somehow the university did not activate DHCP-Snooping on the switches. (Don't ask me why)
As expected some non-tech-students plugged in their router and did not turn off their ...
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Default network setting of windows defender firewall
Since public networks is not recommended, why is it always the default choice on my PC? I'm using it at home.
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How can I block all outgoing Windows connection but allow connect to a specific IP address?
I have a (Windows) server and have to block all outgoing connections but only allow connecting a software to a trusted IP address.
How can I do that?
I added a new rule in Windows firewall to block ...
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FTP access blocked despite rule opened
I am setting up FTP service on a Win 11 Pro machine. I enabled the FTP rules in Windows Defender Firewall as below:
However, on a neighboring PC, I couldn't telnet to port 21. But if I shut down the ...
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WIndows 11 firewall rule doesn't seem to work
I have a web server on a Windows 11 Pro PC running on port 12080. I can access http://localhost:12080 just fine, but can't access from any other PC on the same network.
I added a firewall rule ...
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How to log the activities only of a specific rule of Windows Firewall from PowerShell Or Other alternatives
I want to monitor network activities only of a specific rule in the Windows firewall.
Because the firewall makes huge logs of all the enabled rules which makes it hard to analyze traffic on 1 specific ...
