Disable Windows Firewall Remotely
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Being domain administrator in a complex network, you don’t want to walk around to fix issues or to install a software. You rely on remote desktop solutions to get into other devices. I use the admin share (\\node\x$) command very often. However, when the devices you’re working with has Windows firewall enabled, you’re out of luck. 
Turning off Windows firewall remotely seems to be impossible in enterprise networks. Of course, in a network with 20 desktops, you could just simply walk over and do it. I’ve done a lot of searches and tried various of methods, the conclusion is: No Go!
A guy once wrote an au3 script, some people confirmed it works. But when I tired it recently, it works only if the target client is yourself. When I tried the script targeting another node, it does nothing. The way I see it: If windows firewall blocks incoming ICMP packets, it’s pretty much it. I have to walk over to the node and manually turn WFW off.
Maybe, creating a global policy on the domain controller would be the way to go…
I work for a company that has about 40 users at HQ’s I do everything here. I’ve been playing around with a program called ManagePC, it works fine when the firewall was turned off. Once I enabled the firewall I couldn’t remote to any machine. The Remoteadminsettings on the remote machine must be turned on for you to remote into that machine. Once you turn on the remoteadminsettings it will go through the Windows firewall, BUT you can’t edit the registry remotely. Here I am stuck still trying to figure out a way to edit the registry remotely through the firewall or remotely turn off the firewall.
I have a script that you can drop on the remote machine that will turn on the remoteadminsettings
copy from under the line and stop over the 2nd line
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‘www.carnag3.com
‘ This code enables the remote administration exception
Set Firewall = CreateObject(“HNetCfg.FwMgr”)
Set Policy = Firewall.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile
Set AdminSettings = Policy.RemoteAdminSettings
AdminSettings.Enabled = True
WScript.Echo “Remote Admin has been enabled”
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feel free to message me on aol/aim sn: Carnageatwork
how to copy this script ? is it in note pad & save as .vbs extension ?
Thank you in advance
Hi
Anyone tried the firewall software called SterJo Portable Firewall FREE?
I really want about it.
Thanks a lot