RE: Windows XP SP2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an application which uses Cygwin (1.5.12(0.116/4/2)) to interact with a Sun workstation, e.g., rsh, rcp, awk, etc. Everything was working fine until I installed Windows XP SP2. The firewall is disabled, but the Cygwin commands aren't working properly. On one computer, I uninstalled SP2 and my app started working again. Is this a known problem or is my situation unique? thanks, Jason cygwin works fine w/SP2 reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
Avery Bunker wrote: I had problems with KDE. The firewall blocked it so I could not start KDE. After I took off Service Pack 2 it ran just fine. I looked at the firewall but not being a KDE expert had no clue on what ports needed to be added and which ones did not. It did add two services into the firewall that KDE used but ot still would not start. It would freeze on the splash screen. Unfortunately, the XP firewall's automatic popup when a program tries to open a port doesn't work if the program is a service that cannot interact with the desktop. Try starting the KDE processes as ordinary processes and see what alerts pop up. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
At 12:48 PM 8/20/2004, you wrote: Avery Bunker wrote: I had problems with KDE. The firewall blocked it so I could not start KDE. After I took off Service Pack 2 it ran just fine. I looked at the firewall but not being a KDE expert had no clue on what ports needed to be added and which ones did not. It did add two services into the firewall that KDE used but ot still would not start. It would freeze on the splash screen. Unfortunately, the XP firewall's automatic popup when a program tries to open a port doesn't work if the program is a service that cannot interact with the desktop. Cannot or does not? You can always allow the service to interact with the desktop. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
Good day, Microsoft is getting ready to push out SP2 via their automatic update. What experiences have people had with using cygwin applications with sp2 installed (particularly with the improved firewall)? Thanks, Charles No problems here, but my network usage with Cygwin is pretty much limited to cvs (client) and wget these days. Autotools, gcc, and friends seem to have no problems. -- Gary R. Van Sickle
RE: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
Good day, Microsoft is getting ready to push out SP2 via their automatic update. What experiences have people had with using cygwin applications with sp2 installed (particularly with the improved firewall)? Thanks, Charles No problems here, but my network usage with Cygwin is pretty much limited to cvs (client) and wget these days. Autotools, gcc, and friends seem to have no problems. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
Hi Charles, The latest I have heard on SP2 is that Microsoft is pushing it back a week or two because of concerns that some programs may not work at all after the installation. Microsoft has a list of about 50 to 200 programs that will be or potentially could be affected.Many corporations are going to do test runs on thier enterprise systems, like testing on smaller networks first, to ensure there will be no problems or if there are how to avoid or fix them. I plan on waiting a few months after the release before updating. My system works without using the built-in firewall of XP, I use Zone Alarm freeeware version. Just passing on what has been reported in the news. Have a great day!! James E. Merritt --- Charles Plager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day, Microsoft is getting ready to push out SP2 via their automatic update. What experiences have people had with using cygwin applications with sp2 installed (particularly with the improved firewall)? Thanks, Charles __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
RE: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles Plager Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 8:07 AM To: Cygwin Mailing list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet? Good day, Microsoft is getting ready to push out SP2 via their automatic update. What experiences have people had with using cygwin applications with sp2 installed (particularly with the improved firewall)? Thanks, Charles I've installed SP2 at home and if you are clueful about which ports to open the firewall interface is actually pretty intuitive. It is also pretty easy to just turn the firewall off (which I did b/c it is on a trusted network). -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Assistant Vice President Linux Design and Engineering Bank of America (972) 997-9641 The opinions expressed in this message do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, Bank of America.
Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
Charles Plager wrote: Microsoft is getting ready to push out SP2 via their automatic update. What experiences have people had with using cygwin applications with sp2 installed (particularly with the improved firewall)? I've been running SP2 (final network admin install) for the last week. No problems with ordinary usage. I don't run any network daemons like FTPd or sshd, but even for them, the only thing you have to do is to open a firewall port (or allow the program to listen on any port - there are two ways to punch holes in the Windows firewall). Note that the default mode of the FTP client will cause one of these port use warnings to pop up from Windows, because in its regular mode (i.e. not PASV), when you GET a file using FTP, the client actually listens on a port, and the server tries to open connection to push the data. Again, all you have to when Windows pops up the program is trying to open port dialog, is to say OK once.
Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
Charles Plager wrote: Microsoft is getting ready to push out SP2 via their automatic update. What experiences have people had with using cygwin applications with sp2 installed (particularly with the improved firewall)? I've been running SP2 (final network admin install) for the last week. No problems with ordinary usage. I don't run any network daemons like FTPd or sshd, but even for them, the only thing you have to do is to open a firewall port (or allow the program to listen on any port - there are two ways to punch holes in the Windows firewall). Note that the default mode of the FTP client will cause one of these port use warnings to pop up from Windows, because in its regular mode (i.e. not PASV), when you GET a file using FTP, the client actually listens on a port, and the server tries to open connection to push the data. Again, all you have to when Windows pops up the program is trying to open port dialog, is to say OK once. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
I had problems with KDE. The firewall blocked it so I could not start KDE. After I took off Service Pack 2 it ran just fine. I looked at the firewall but not being a KDE expert had no clue on what ports needed to be added and which ones did not. It did add two services into the firewall that KDE used but ot still would not start. It would freeze on the splash screen. From: Shankar Unni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:50:17 -0700 Charles Plager wrote: Microsoft is getting ready to push out SP2 via their automatic update. What experiences have people had with using cygwin applications with sp2 installed (particularly with the improved firewall)? I've been running SP2 (final network admin install) for the last week. No problems with ordinary usage. I don't run any network daemons like FTPd or sshd, but even for them, the only thing you have to do is to open a firewall port (or allow the program to listen on any port - there are two ways to punch holes in the Windows firewall). Note that the default mode of the FTP client will cause one of these port use warnings to pop up from Windows, because in its regular mode (i.e. not PASV), when you GET a file using FTP, the client actually listens on a port, and the server tries to open connection to push the data. Again, all you have to when Windows pops up the program is trying to open port dialog, is to say OK once. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: I'll do some research on how to change the firewall settings from a running program. looks like http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ics/ics/inetfwv6mgr_openglobalport.asp is what we want. But the header files from the SDK will not work with cygwin. @Harold: Where didi you get the ddraw.h file from? Did you use wine-idl to generate it from the idl or did you use the plain wine header? bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 - 6. und 7. März 2004 http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag
RE: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
I'll do some research on how to change the firewall settings from a running program. Any comments and ideas? What happens when X crashes? We *have* to restore the firewall in this case. I *think* we can catch this case using SEH - but we can't compile using gcc then... Maybe we need a wrapper script when runs disable firewall, run X, enable firewall. Works well (until the use kills the wrapper script...) Stuart
Re: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: I'll do some research on how to change the firewall settings from a running program. looks like http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ics/ics/inetfwv6mgr_openglobalport.asp is what we want. But the header files from the SDK will not work with cygwin. @Harold: Where didi you get the ddraw.h file from? Did you use wine-idl to generate it from the idl or did you use the plain wine header? I grabbed a version from Wine and (I think) made a few hand modifications to it to get it to work. Harold
Re: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
Stuart Adamson wrote: I'll do some research on how to change the firewall settings from a running program. Any comments and ideas? What happens when X crashes? We *have* to restore the firewall in this case. I *think* we can catch this case using SEH - but we can't compile using gcc then... That was not my impression from reading information about XP SP2. However, I don't think we are going to have to modify anything anyway, since the default for the new firewall in SP2 is to allowing incoming connections for a few seconds from the remote host after an outbound connection has been made to it. This should work just fine with our outbound UDP connection that expects to get a return TCP connection for Xdmcp. Harold
RE: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Stuart Adamson wrote: What happens when X crashes? No running service, no vulnerability, no problem. I'm just talking about opening one single port. We *have* to restore the firewall in this case. I *think* we can catch this case using SEH - but we can't compile using gcc then... Maybe we need a wrapper script when runs disable firewall, run X, enable firewall. Works well (until the use kills the wrapper script...) I'll play with the test program I've written. Maybe this will get an simple commandline interface for configuring ICF. But first I have to find an WinXP with installed ICF anywhere. Win2k did not have it and the plain XP box (no SPs) here hasn't it either. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 - 6. und 7. März 2004 http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag
Re: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
Perhaps you're looking in the wrong place? ICF came with WinXP originally. Open a network connection-Properties-Advanced-Checkbox for ICF. Elliott Wilcoxon Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Stuart Adamson wrote: Maybe we need a wrapper script when runs disable firewall, run X, enable firewall. Works well (until the use kills the wrapper script...) I'll play with the test program I've written. Maybe this will get an simple commandline interface for configuring ICF. But first I have to find an WinXP with installed ICF anywhere. Win2k did not have it and the plain XP box (no SPs) here hasn't it either. bye ago
