How to customize windows firewall

[Oren10]

I had installed win xp sp2 in my laptop. My firewall is configured on by default. Many times it blocked some of the services which i want to use but unsolicited by windows. I want to connect my laptop with my office network to run a specific application for my work. But windows firewall is blocking the application. I don't want to turn it off. The thing i need is to allow my application on certain TCP or UDP port without switching the firewall off.

[Patrickboy]

If you had a small network you can manually turn off your firewall form the control panel of windows. But this will prone your system to security threats.
The second option you can try which i am using. I had manually configured my incoming traffic on TCP port 80.
For this you had to go to control panel and run the firewall.
In the firewall window select Exception tab and select add port
Then give a name for it and select OK.
Now a new exception is added under the Firewall.

[Alexis25]

You need to add the following text in the unattend.txt file to allow a incoming traffic on the local intranet.

[WindowsFirewall]
Profiles=WindowsFirewall.Standard

[WindowsFirewall.Standard]
Type = 1
Mode = 1
Exceptions = 1
PortOpenings = WindowsFirewall.WebServer

[WindowsFirewall.WebServer]
Protocol= 6
Port = 80
Name = Web Server (TCP 80)
Mode = 1
Scope = 1


regards

[Bartholomew]

The netsh firewall context can be use to configure the firewall. You need to create a inf ball by cmd in windows xp

To allow incoming traffic on the port for an xp machine which is running as an webserver on the network use the following command:

netsh firewall add portopening protocol=TCP port=80 name=”Web Server (TCP 80)” mode=ENABLE scope=SUBNET profile=DOMAIN