after a while of looking through things and troubleshooting... decided to try something stupid or n00bish.. hah..
so in lab environments I just stop the windows firewall service. Not needed ... well it seems that when I started the Windows Firewall Service and went into the Firewall piece in Control Panel, then just unchecking domain, public, private all started working. I have NEVER had to uncheck those when stopping the service. This was a first for me!!!!!