RE: Personal/Host-based Firewalls

["Nieveler, Juergen" <Juergen.Nieveler () akzonobeldeco de>]

>       I have begun investigating personal/host-based  firewalls for
Windows
> 2K *Server*, with the hope of finding a solid, reliable, fast product 
> that I can easily manage in an environment of distributed remote 
> offices (in which I have limited access to the systems, or administration 
> through someone else's eyes and ears). 

What do you want to achieve with such a "firewall"? If people are supposed
to use the server, you have to open those ports that they need to use.

As for ports that they DON'T need to use - why install something on a server
that isn't used anyway?

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely

Juergen Nieveler
eMail: Juergen.Nieveler () AkzoNobelDeco de

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