Trust Listen port in the window service

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hash - 23 Jul 2007 20:50 GMT

Hello

I am not sure that what I want to know is a big problem, but ... I
created windows service which listen internet connection to some port.
Everythings ok, but windows firewall denyed any connection to this.
Can somebody tell me what should I do please?

Thanks.

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Peter Duniho - 23 Jul 2007 21:08 GMT

> I am not sure that what I want to know is a big problem, but ... I
> created windows service which listen internet connection to some port.
> Everythings ok, but windows firewall denyed any connection to this.
> Can somebody tell me what should I do please?

Configure the firewall so that it doesn't deny access to the port.

You can either just open the port globally, or you can give your service
specific access to the port.

Pete

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hash - 23 Jul 2007 21:21 GMT

On Jul 23, 11:08 pm, "Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPe...@nnowslpianmk.com>
wrote:

> > I am not sure that what I want to know is a big problem, but ... I
> > created windows service which listen internet connection to some port.
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>
> Pete

Yep, but this service will be used by another people and I can't ask
them to configure firewall everytime :)

Thanks.

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Peter Duniho - 23 Jul 2007 22:51 GMT

> Yep, but this service will be used by another people and I can't ask
> them to configure firewall everytime :)

If an application could just arbitrarily change the firewall settings any
time it wanted, there wouldn't be much point to having a firewall, would
there? To some extent, if your users are going to have the firewall
active, they need to be prepared to configure it.

That said, I believe that you may be able to find some API, perhaps in the
WMI part of .NET, that allows for limited changes that go through some
specific user authentication scenario. What that is, I don't know off the
top of my head.

Pete

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Trust Listen port in the window service

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