[AG-TECH] WinXP sp2?

[Steve Gallo]

One thing you are able to do is "Allow communication with a program from
any computer, incouding those on the internet", so you should be able to
say that the venueserver is allowed to accept incoming connections.  I
haven't tried this myself, though, but it does work for things like
Xwin32 and ssh (to a vmware host).

Steve


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> Behalf Of Todd Zimmerman
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 3:54 PM
> To: Randy Groves
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] WinXP sp2?
> 
> 
> AG seemed to work on XP-SP2; however, the biggest issue I found is there 
> seems to be no way of allowing a block of ports through the XP firewall. 
>   From what I can see, each port must be individually allowed through 
> the firewall....
> 
> 
> While most of the connections are 'firewall friendly'... the streams use 
> RTP port pairs - so you have to tell the firewall about the additional 
> connections.
> 
> Its not really a practical solution to enter the ports individually if 
> the venueserver you are connecting to selects random ports from a range 
> 50000 to ~65000.
> 
> I've only preliminarily investigated this... however this problem seems 
> to be confirmed at this article:
> http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Articles/ArticleID/43085/pg/3/3.html
> 
> If anyone has a work around I'd be interested to hear!
> 
> 
> 
> Todd
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> 
> 
> 
> Randy Groves wrote:
> > I guess that we can infer from Ivan's comments about 2.3 on sp2 that 
> > this is considered a 'supported' environment?
> > 
> > Any issues/pointers with setup of the firewall and/or other of the 
> > security features?
> > 
> > -randy
> > 
>