Windows Firewall Questions

[Chimp Paradox]

I have been experiencing file sharing difficulties across my network so Ive turned off my firewalls for now. However when I was exploring the advanced settings, I see that what people normally refer to as a firewall are either related to the private profile or a public profile. But that there is a third type called domain profile. What is that?

Second, I assume private firewall just refers to intra computer on your own network?

 

[edscdk]

domain profile is jsut tweaked for machines joined to a windows domain, just different ports open / blocked...

personally i turn the firewall off for maximum perfomance, the only downside (other than having no firewall) is you cannot share a printer with the firewall disabled

 

[asim18]

The domain profile rules come into effect if you're connecting to a domain. (these types of networks are typically found at work).

The private profile rules come into effect if you're connecting to a network you've selected as private. (eg. your home connection)

The public profile rules come into effect if you're connecting to a network you've selected as public. (eg. Starbucks wifi)

 

[Chimp Paradox]

is WAN not a network at all right? Ie your computers are connected to a router, not the WAN?

So is a Domain like an overly? A overly which creates different domains within the same network?