Solved Disable firewall via registry

[jvuz]

Hello,

is there a way to disable the firewall via the registry?

Jvuz

 

[mckillwashere]

Any reason why you want is disabled via registry and not the control panel?

 

[jvuz]

When installing and configuring our new systems, I created a reg file to already configure a lot instead of doing everything via the control panel. I have two files, one for Windows 7 and one for non-Windows 7 OS's.

Jvuz

 

[Bill2]

I assume you're talking about windows firewall. You mentioned you are using other OS's. For XP, take a look at this page.

How to Use Regedit to Turn the Windows Firewall Off

In win7, apart from the standard profile and domain profile, theres also a public profile so I'm not sure how this would work there.

One approach could be to make a batch file with the netsh command line to disable the firewall, then convert the batch to a reg file.

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/enable-and-disable-windows-firewall-quickly-using-command-line/

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/84189-convert-reg-files-bat-files.html

Dwarf's tutorial would give you the equivalences between the reg and the bat files.

 

[jvuz]

A batch is good too. Thanks alot. I'll have a look. For XP there isn't a problem. That reg hack I already found.

I'll keep you posted.

Jvuz

 

[jvuz]

Using the following command it worked (make sure UAC is disabled):

netsh advfirewall set currentprofile state off

Thanks everyone for helping me out here.

 

[lavee383]

why not disable it via GPO instead?

 

[jvuz]

We're not using Windows servers, but Linux servers with Samba.

 

[lavee383]

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