Hi all .. I am using SuSE 11.1 .. Is their a way to disable the windows firewall of another computer in my network because sometimes I need to remote access on other computers on network but this cant be done because of the windows firewall .. so is their a way to close the firewall remotely using the hostname? Thanks

Hi Ahmed,

There's Win32 utility called Dameware NT Utilities which allows you to start/stop windows services on remote machines once you authenticate with either a local or domain admin account. It MIGHT be possible to get it to work using Wine. You could also use WMI or Windows Management Instruments (I think) to stop and start remote services, but this would also require a Windows or possibly Wine environment.

If you had an old or virtual windows PC, you could use either of the above methods to turn the firewall on or off (assuming Wine doesn't work). Otherwise, you could use Group Policy to create exceptions for the local firewall allowing traffic on particular ports.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help
Mark