Comments on: Enable File and Printer Sharing using Group Policy

By: RedEagle

RedEagle — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:45:43 +0000

I’ve gone through these steps updated the group policy due to my impatience, but I don’t understand why when I go and check the test machine firewall the “Only this network (sub-network)” is chosen by default despite using *

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:53:40 +0000

True. But that problem is much tougher to crack. I believe the only way of automating that issue is to iterate through each network card in the registry and enable on each – not fun when Microsoft constantly is moving things around for each version of Windows.

By: Rafik

Rafik — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:27:24 +0000

Your solution doesn’t prevent users with administrator rights from getting “File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks” unchecked on network card. If they do that you have back these machines unmanagable