If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Enable File/Print Sharing Remotely (on the windows firewall)
How, if possible at all, can you ENABLE File/Print Sharing remotely?
As we all know, if the Windows Firewall is running yet file/print sharing is not checked - you cannot do admin$ shares, can't access remote registry, or start/stop services remotely and probably other things I'm leaving out. At any rate - how would you enable FPS remotely - without using Group Policy or some type of remote desktop connection to the machine. I know about the NETSH command, but of course you can't use that to hit a remote machine to enable FPS since it would be disabled and would block the remote connection. It's a strange circle in Windows - you want to access the machine remotely, but can't since FPS isn't enabled, but you need to enable it, but can only do it remotely. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Enable File/Print Sharing Remotely (on the windows firewall)
Basically there are three approaches to remote management of computers, you join them to a domain and use domain tools such as group policy, or you use a login script to run remote commands. Or, you can take control of the computer using Remote Desktop methods. Any of these requires the computer to be preconfigured to allow it, which in a corporate LAN would normally be done at roll-out time. It stands to reason that if that were not so, anyone -including intruders- could do the same. Firewall rules can be configured by netsh as you mentioned. or by direct registry changes. That said, these days I tend to stop the Server service on desktops. This prohibits all sharing. Sharing items from desktops is not a good practice. Printers are best networked directly using TCP/IP or LPR methods. (Plan ahead and buy suitable models, otherwise use adaptor-boxes) Any data worth preserving should be on a server. One of the key issues with 'workgroup' sharing is that any shared folder or printer being offline can lead to hesitation and slowness in all Explorer functions, even those which do not explicitly access this resource. Thus, you end-up with every computer in the office being left running 24/7 to avoid this problem. "steve02a" wrote: How, if possible at all, can you ENABLE File/Print Sharing remotely? As we all know, if the Windows Firewall is running yet file/print sharing is not checked - you cannot do admin$ shares, can't access remote registry, or start/stop services remotely and probably other things I'm leaving out. At any rate - how would you enable FPS remotely - without using Group Policy or some type of remote desktop connection to the machine. I know about the NETSH command, but of course you can't use that to hit a remote machine to enable FPS since it would be disabled and would block the remote connection. It's a strange circle in Windows - you want to access the machine remotely, but can't since FPS isn't enabled, but you need to enable it, but can only do it remotely. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|