Allow flexible control of file and printer sharing

Note: If you use role-based administration:
  • You must have the Policy setting - firewall right to configure a firewall policy.
  • You cannot edit a policy if it is applied outside your active sub-estate.

For more information, see Managing roles and sub-estates.

If you want more flexible control of file and printer sharing on your networks (for example, uni-directional NetBIOS traffic), you can do the following:

To allow file and printer sharing on other LANs than those in the LAN settings list:

  1. Check which firewall policy is used by the group(s) of computers you want to configure.
  2. In the Policies pane, double-click Firewall, and then double-click the policy you want to change.
  3. On the File and printer sharing page of the Firewall Policy wizard, select Use custom settings, and then click Custom.
  4. Clear the Block file and printer sharing for other networks check box.