Windows XP Firewall error...

I have a Linksys WRT54G install on Windows XP. This router
is being fed by a Starband satellite modem.

My WiFi network works fine except when I try to engage the
built in Firewall. The error reads as follows...

"The account specified for this service is different from the
account specified for other services running in the same process."

Can anybody tell which accounts and/or services are interfering
with the XP Firewall.

Thanks.

Jim Osborne





Jim Osborne

"Jim Osborne" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a Linksys WRT54G install on Windows XP. This router
> is being fed by a Starband satellite modem.
>
> My WiFi network works fine except when I try to engage the
> built in Firewall. The error reads as follows...
>
> "The account specified for this service is different from the
> account specified for other services running in the same process."
>
> Can anybody tell which accounts and/or services are interfering
> with the XP Firewall.
>

You're joking with this right?

This kind of indicates to me that somehow the machine may have been
compromised, unless you have done something with the registry settings or
NTFS as far as the System or the Service accounts are concerned. You may
want to check that out. It just doesn't happen by itself.

Your next solution may be to go to Add/Remove Programs/Windows Components
and uninstall the ICF and reinstall it to see if that doesn't correct your
situation. You'll need the Win XP install CD.

You may want to enable IPsec that's on the O/S. You may want to use it to
supplement ICF in the future. I use it to protect the LAN and it's is
enabled behind the router and BlackIce on all machines.

http://www.petri.co.il/block_ping_tr...with_ipsec.htm
http://www.analogx.com/contents/articles/ipsec.htm

All you have to do is implement the AnalogX SecPol file and you're covered.
However, if ICF is not working, IPsec may not be working too.

If the O/S is not secure, nothing on the machine is secure.

http://www.uksecurityonline.com/index5.php

Or you may want to contact MS Tech Support via email for assistance. It may
still be free to contact MS via email if the product has been registered.
They got me out of a jam a couple of years ago with a Win 2K O/S issue I was
having.

If none of it works, then wipe the machine out and reinstall the O/S.

Duane