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Defender Firewall Settings to allow remote WireGuard VPN users to access SMB share on Windows host
Upfront note: our current "server" is Windows 10 but it will be replaced with a Windows 11 Pro machine in a few weeks. I'm hoping there aren't many (if any) differences in Firewall between 10 and 11,...
Follow-up:
- We just replaced the old Windows 10 box with a new Windows 11 Pro "server"
- Remote access to Windows shares on it through WireGuard VPN worked immediately (as expected)
The old box was running Windows 10 Home, and for remote access had GoToMyPC installed. While troubleshooting this issue I noticed a bunch of "G2*" (GoToMyPC) incoming firewall rules were defined and active.
The new machine has Pro, and with VPN capability GoToMyPC is no longer needed (using Windows RDC instead) and is not installed.
Since with the new computer we no longer have this issue, it's not worth our time trying to figure out why we had it with the old one. But if anyone has this issue and the "server" has GoToMyPC installed, it might be worth investigating.