Windows Firewall, trouble opening ports

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Fire sharings are all turned on for private, public, domain.

Do you have any other firewall software running on the Windows 8 Machine?

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Antivirus turned off. no extra firewall.
I created inbound rule to open wide everything between Computer B and A, still same;
'Any Local IP' 'Any Remote IP', Any port, any protocol, all programs and services.

I specifically have to turn off windows firewall on domain profile to make the connection works. So it's this Windows firewall on domain profile causing this problem.

There's no 'block' rule inbound, tried to make the inbound rules exactly same as other computers which don't have problem being accessed by computer A. No luck.

Something of Windows firewall is blocking, but don't know what it is.

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I had this weird problem before, but couldn't get answer. It was not the same software, but different softwares.

Can the machines ping each other?

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Yes, since I created inbound rules opening wide all, ping is not a problem.

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I read it, my network is correctly set up and file sharing is on the domain. I don't think it's file sharing problem on domain profile. When I turn off Windows Firewall on Domain profile, there's no problem. So it's firewall issue, I think.

But what I don't understand is, isn't that turning off windows firewall on domain profile is the same as creating rule opening wide as I described above('Any Local IP' 'Any Remote IP', Any port, any protocol, all programs and services. )? What is the difference between turning off specifically and opening all in inbound rule? Are any hidden rules blocking in windows firewall?

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wait a minute, so the difference might be outbound rule, then? let me check..

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no luck

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Does your domain have any group policy settings that will over ride your changes?

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Am I understanding correctly?
Under tab Scope, Local IP is ip address of my NIC and Remote IP is outside IP trying to access my PC.
By the way, setting is 'Any Local IP' 'Any Remote IP', Any port, any protocol, all programs and services, All Interfaces, All Profiles (Private, Domain, Public). Still not the same as turning off firewall on Domain profile. This is driving me crazy

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I have a group policy setting disabling changing windows firewall settings, but I'm admin, I am not in the filtered group getting affected. I can enable disable change settings whatever

You could try forcing the change by using group policy to allow the connections through.

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