XP firewall and WFAS settings aren't necessarily compatible.<BR><BR>If you don't configure WFAS the Vista firewall Standard Profile is used and it applies to both private and public profiles.

We're finding an increasing number of our machines seem to be totally ignoring the Group Policy that's assigned to a parent OU to disable the Windows XP Firewall.The GPO is set to simply disable ...

In this example, I have an OU named Clients, which contains all my Vista PCs. Right click the OU and select Create a GPO in this domain, and Link it here. Name the GPO Windows Firewall and click OK ...

The Windows Firewall Group Policy settings will appear in the middle pane. Double-click "Windows Firewall: Allow file and printer sharing exception," click the "Settings" tab and select "Enabled." ...

If your Windows Firewall profile does not always switch to Domain when you use a third-party VPN client, then follow this workaround to fix the problem.