Remote Assistance 2003 Server not working

[Luis G]

Hello All,

I have a Windows 2003 Server SP1 and XP Professional SP 2

I have been trying for days to get the Remote Assistance working with
the firewall on.

I followed the instructions from Microsoft to the tee:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301527

I created a seperate OU and then configured the GPO on under that OU.

I would then try to connect and I was not able to offer remote
assistance unless the firewall was turned off.

I did a rsop.msc on the XP machine and it showed the GPO propagated to
the machine.

I played with the GPO all day and noticed that when I ran the Group
Policy Results wizard it returned an RPC server service not started on
the local machine error.

I would then turn off the firewall and then I was able to run the
wizard.

I then ran a netsh firewall show state and saw that remote
administration was disabled

I enabled it and now everything works.
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...a0d3-40b5-8224-ea6a4f5e17231033.mspx?mfr=true

I read on "Malicious users often attempt to attack networks and
computers using RPC and DCOM"

I really don't want to create a huge security hole in my network
because I opened this feature.

What am I doing wrong with the configuration?

What is the best way to deploy this on a domain?

Thanks a million!