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-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov]On > Behalf Of Todd Zimmerman > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 3:54 PM > To: Randy Groves > Cc: ag-t...@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 > -- > Collaboration & Visualization Technician > WestGrid - www.westgrid.ca > IRMACS - www.irmacs.com > Ph. 604.268.6979 > Todd Zimmerman - to...@sfu.ca > > > > 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 > > >