There are some situtations in which you need to modify Windows firewall configuration and you have only command-line access. In these cases, you can make use of the command netsh Command Prompt. netsh is available from Windows 2000 and above.
Examples
Command to display the status of the firewall of the machine:
netsh firewall show opmode
Turns off firewall state for all the profiles:
netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off
External references
- “Netsh Command Syntax, Contexts and Formatting“; Elizabeth Ross, Ian Prittie and James McIllece; Microsoft
- “Netsh“; Wikipedia