Date: 09/25/07 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: software, google

We have a new, Vista-running development machine here, and I'm having some serious firewall issues with it.

Before I join the machine to a domain, I'm able to turn the firewall on and off with a local admin account. Once I join a domain, I am unable to turn it on, to the tune of "Windows cannot start the Windows Firewall service." However, even after I leave the domain (and am only in a work group), I am unable to start the service. This is a clean install of Vista Business.

Is this a "that's how Vista works" issue, or is there something more here? I've Googled my greasy little heart out on this.

Thanks for reading.

**EDIT - I need the firewall service to be running for the remote admin software that's on the machine.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/66482.html