MY friend and i have been trying to set up a LAN connection to play halo at our school. Does anyone know how to bypass this without admin privileges? How about a very basic encryption?

What firewall are you talking about? If it's the windows firewall, then there's a piss easy way to disable it without admin privileges. When I was in high school I wrote a simple batch file that could easily take out the firewall so we could all play Halo on the LAN. If you're talking about the windows firewall, I'll try digging out the code that I used or try and rewrite it for you.

EDIT: And I'm pretty sure that encryption won't do anything since I believe the firewall only blocks ports. You might be able to create a tunnel or forward your ports somehow.

Could you please? I kinda had an idea that it would bypass it because my friend and i use Tor on firefox to bypass the firewall.

I couldn't find my original batch file, but this will do the exact same thing.

@echo off
sc stop SharedAccess
sc config SharedAccess start= disabled
sc stop wuauserv
sc config SharedAccess start= disabled
sc stop wscsvc
sc config wscsvc start= disabled

In case you don't know, just copy and paste that into notepad, and save it as a .bat file. For example, "killfirewall.bat" would be an acceptable file name.

Try that and see if it works.

Just curious - did my batch script work?

I'm pretty sure the batch file you stated above requires administrator privileges (when calling sc.exe for what you want to do ). It might still work, providing that policies might be different.

I'm pretty sure the batch file you stated above requires administrator privileges (when calling sc.exe for what you want to do ). It might still work, providing that policies might be different.

That's what I would have thought, but it always worked for me so I think it's still worth a try. Then again, the admins at that school were dopes, so who knows.

EDIT: Changing sc to net might do something in case it didn't work the first time, but I dunno.

Getting admin privileges on a windows machine isn't that hard as long as long as the OP has physical access to a machine when he's alone, so he could give that a try.