Change Firewall Settings manually

On each XP SP 2 workstation you need to remotely access, go to the Control Panel, display “Windows Firewall”, go to the Exceptions tab and do the following:


Enable the File and printer sharing exception.
For extra security, if your administration console (computer on which RemoteExec is installed) has a static IP, you can specify it as source. To do this, edit the File and printer sharing exception, click on Change Scope, select Custom list and enter the IP address.


For Windows Vista workstations you should also allow the ICMP protocol in the “Windows firewall with advanced security” console available in administration tools. In Inbound rules, enable the “Networking – Echo request” rule for the domain profile.
Add a port exception with RPC as name, 135 as port and with TCP selected. If possible, restrict the source to IP as explained above.


Add an application exception with %SystemRoot%\system32\RemoteExecAgent.exe as path. If you are not allowed to do this because the file is not available download the reg file at the following link and execute it: http://www.isdecisions.com/download/AllowRemoteExec.zip You should then be able to access the workstation using RemoteExec.