Windows XP Firewall Exceptions »
I'm installing a handful of computers today, and one of the things I'm doing is loading UltraVNC on them. Well, these computers are way behind on updates, and several of them require SP2, which as you may or may not know, turns on the firewall even if you've turned it off. So I recently decided that I would add exceptions for VNC, so that even if it's on, I can get to the box.
The problem is that it kept disappearing. Until just now, I could not figure it out. Well, apparently if you set up a firewall exception while a computer is a member of a workgroup, then join a domain, that exception is lost! What in the world were they thinking? The default MS stuff is there, of course. Why can't they leave ones added by the user?
