Russ Hearn wrote: > Cal Frye wrote: >> Looks like what we've been playing with doesn't work. Does someone have >> a good way to identify when a Windows XP user has Internet Connection >> Sharing turned on? I can't seem to differentiate between the firewall >> service and ICS particularly -- I want the firewall on, but ICS >> definitely turned off, of course. Registry key? Service/process? >> >> Maybe it's just Monday morning, and my mind is fuzzy yet...
> Hi Cal, > > You want to do a service check for "SharedAccess" to see if the > connection sharing is enabled as per what I've tested. Thanks, Russ. The problem I'm having is, at least with the test machine I'm using, that service remains active if sharing is off and the firewall is on, which kind of defeats the purpose ;-) -- Regards, -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "A man's library is a sort of harem." --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
