Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-17 Thread André Pönitz
 David Thielen
 It's all peer to peer, no server. So each AddIn listens for the UDP
 broadcasts and replies to the broadcaster saying they exist.
 
 The broadcast occurs at startup and if the number of replies is greater
 than the license allows that AddIn is disabled. So the first N can run,
 the rest cannot.

I can imagine a couple of scenarios - intentional and less intentional -
where the answer won't reach the sender and so the sender would startup
no matter how many instances of the plugin are already running.

It's much harder to imagine how reliable licence management is supposed
to work under such circumstances...

Andre'

PS: A bit more on topic: I also think that such configuration is not the
business of the installer as it is very likely to fail and rollback will
be messy.

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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Rob Mensching
How would you the netsh firewall command back?  Also, what if two installs 
both install the same firewall exception?  How would you reference count the 
firewall exception?

Writing CustomActions that modify machine state is rarely an easy task.  
Transactions (even compensating transactions) are hard things to get right.

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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

It probably wouldn't be hard to do a Custom Action to do such a thing.  You 
could do a netsh firewall command to do it.
On 1/16/07, David Thielen [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi;



Is there a WIX command to set an exception in the Windows firewall? If so, what 
is it? And can it be set for a program we are not installing (winword.exe)?



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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Rob Mensching
Sorry, not quite awake yet.  Let me try that again... I've touched up what I 
was trying to say below:

How would you get the netsh firewall command to rollback?  Also, what if two 
installs both install the same firewall exception?  How would you reference 
count the firewall exception?

Writing CustomActions that modify machine state is rarely an easy task.  
Transactions (even compensating transactions) are hard things to get right.  
Reference counting is similarly difficult.  Trivializing the effort to get a 
CustomAction correct reduces that chances that we keep end users machines 
stable when they install our software.


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Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

How would you the netsh firewall command back?  Also, what if two installs 
both install the same firewall exception?  How would you reference count the 
firewall exception?

Writing CustomActions that modify machine state is rarely an easy task.  
Transactions (even compensating transactions) are hard things to get right.

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Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:33 AM
To: David Thielen
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

It probably wouldn't be hard to do a Custom Action to do such a thing.  You 
could do a netsh firewall command to do it.
On 1/16/07, David Thielen [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi;



Is there a WIX command to set an exception in the Windows firewall? If so, what 
is it? And can it be set for a program we are not installing (winword.exe)?



Thanks - dave







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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Levi Wilson

It probably wouldn't be hard to do a Custom Action to do such a thing.  You
could do a netsh firewall command to do it.

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Is there a WIX command to set an exception in the Windows firewall? If so,
what is it? And can it be set for a program we are not installing (
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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Rob Mensching
Not today.

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Subject: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

Hi;

Is there a WIX command to set an exception in the Windows firewall? If so, what 
is it? And can it be set for a program we are not installing (winword.exe)?

Thanks - dave



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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Wilson, Phil
The other question to ask is whether this really belongs in the
installation at all.  The line between installation and configuration is
sometimes a huge gray area, but this could be seen as application
configuration that doesn't need to be in the installation. 
 
I've heard suggestion that where ports are concerned it might be better
if the app opens and closes them itself if necessary, which has the
benefit that the ports aren't sitting there open when the app isn't
running. 
 
And what happens if the user installs the app without the Windows
firewall enabled and then enables it later? Or switches from a 3rd-party
firewall to the Windows one? Or upgrades from Windows 2000 to XPSP2 with
your app installed? The point I'm making here is that it might be better
to have a standalone exe that configures the firewall for your product
that can be run another time if necessary. Perhaps put a shortcut on the
Start menu and have the user explicitly run it so there's some awareness
that the firewall has been altered and it's not masked by the
installation. Either way, the idea here is to get away from the notion
that the only way to configure the application's firewall settings is
during the installation. 

Phil Wilson 




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Mensching
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:01 AM
To: Levi Wilson
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception



Short answer is, No.

 

Medium answer is Just launching netsh would not be sufficient to
correctly install, uninstall, rollback, repair and patch Firewall
exceptions.

 

Why?  Well there are a number of issues to think about:

 

What happens if the user hits cancel (or something actually fails in
your install?) after your netsh.exe CustomAction executed?  How do you
rollback, and you want to rollback to the previous exception if there
was one.  There is rollback on Uninstall too (to put it back the way it
was).  And during uninstall, how do you handle the case that two
different products may install the same firewall exception?

 

Lots of tricky problems to solve in there.  I encourage you to take a
look at the WiX CustomActions sometime.  I'm actually working on some
bugs in there where rollback does the wrong thing.  Check out the oldest
open WiX v2 bugs.

 

CustomActions that modify machine state are non-trivial programming
exercises.  Please, be aware of that before you write one... and if you
do write one consider offering it back to the community so nobody else
has to go through the trouble again.  That's how the IIS, SQL, User,
Certificate, FileShare, PerformanceCounter, MSMQ, COM+ stuff all came to
be.

 

 

From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:43 AM
To: Rob Mensching
Cc: David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

 

Couldn't you just do a ShellExecute() on netsh.exe with the command
line of something like firewall add allowedprogram
\c:\\myprogram.exe\ ENABLE as the parameter?  Then you can have
another one (netsh firewall delete etc.) that removes it upon
uninstall.  Wouldn't that work? 

On 1/16/07, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

How would you the netsh firewall command back?  Also, what if two
installs both install the same firewall exception?  How would you
reference count the firewall exception?

 

Writing CustomActions that modify machine state is rarely an easy task.
Transactions (even compensating transactions) are hard things to get
right.

 

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Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:33 AM
To: David Thielen
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

 

It probably wouldn't be hard to do a Custom Action to do such a thing.
You could do a netsh firewall command to do it.

On 1/16/07, David Thielen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi;

 

Is there a WIX command to set an exception in the Windows firewall? If
so, what is it? And can it be set for a program we are not installing
(winword.exe)?

 

Thanks - dave

 

 

 

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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Tony Hoyle
Wilson, Phil wrote:
 The other question to ask is whether this really belongs in the 
 installation at all.  The line between installation and configuration is 
 sometimes a huge gray area, but this could be seen as application 
 configuration that doesn't need to be in the installation.
  
 I've heard suggestion that where ports are concerned it might be better 
 if the app opens and closes them itself if necessary, which has the 
 benefit that the ports aren't sitting there open when the app isn't 
 running.

Speaking with my admin hat on I'd really rather an application/installer 
did none of these things, and was unable to do so without requesting 
administrative approval (something I believe vista enforces.. hopefully 
even when running an MSI).

Unfortunately on XP this can be done silently without any confirmation 
just by the installer running netsh firewall in the background... so 
it's probably a lost cause.

Tony

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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread David Thielen
In our case the AddIn hits the port as soon as Word starts so we need it
added on installation.

 

Thanks - dave

 

 

 

 

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Phil
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:46 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

 

The other question to ask is whether this really belongs in the
installation at all.  The line between installation and configuration is
sometimes a huge gray area, but this could be seen as application
configuration that doesn't need to be in the installation. 

 

I've heard suggestion that where ports are concerned it might be better
if the app opens and closes them itself if necessary, which has the
benefit that the ports aren't sitting there open when the app isn't
running. 

 

And what happens if the user installs the app without the Windows
firewall enabled and then enables it later? Or switches from a 3rd-party
firewall to the Windows one? Or upgrades from Windows 2000 to XPSP2 with
your app installed? The point I'm making here is that it might be better
to have a standalone exe that configures the firewall for your product
that can be run another time if necessary. Perhaps put a shortcut on the
Start menu and have the user explicitly run it so there's some awareness
that the firewall has been altered and it's not masked by the
installation. Either way, the idea here is to get away from the notion
that the only way to configure the application's firewall settings is
during the installation. 

Phil Wilson 

 



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Mensching
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:01 AM
To: Levi Wilson
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

Short answer is, No.

 

Medium answer is Just launching netsh would not be sufficient to
correctly install, uninstall, rollback, repair and patch Firewall
exceptions.

 

Why?  Well there are a number of issues to think about:

 

What happens if the user hits cancel (or something actually fails in
your install?) after your netsh.exe CustomAction executed?  How do you
rollback, and you want to rollback to the previous exception if there
was one.  There is rollback on Uninstall too (to put it back the way it
was).  And during uninstall, how do you handle the case that two
different products may install the same firewall exception?

 

Lots of tricky problems to solve in there.  I encourage you to take a
look at the WiX CustomActions sometime.  I'm actually working on some
bugs in there where rollback does the wrong thing.  Check out the oldest
open WiX v2 bugs.

 

CustomActions that modify machine state are non-trivial programming
exercises.  Please, be aware of that before you write one... and if you
do write one consider offering it back to the community so nobody else
has to go through the trouble again.  That's how the IIS, SQL, User,
Certificate, FileShare, PerformanceCounter, MSMQ, COM+ stuff all came to
be.

 

 

From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:43 AM
To: Rob Mensching
Cc: David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

 

Couldn't you just do a ShellExecute() on netsh.exe with the command
line of something like firewall add allowedprogram
\c:\\myprogram.exe\ ENABLE as the parameter?  Then you can have
another one (netsh firewall delete etc.) that removes it upon
uninstall.  Wouldn't that work? 

On 1/16/07, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

How would you the netsh firewall command back?  Also, what if two
installs both install the same firewall exception?  How would you
reference count the firewall exception?

 

Writing CustomActions that modify machine state is rarely an easy task.
Transactions (even compensating transactions) are hard things to get
right.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi
Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:33 AM
To: David Thielen
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

 

It probably wouldn't be hard to do a Custom Action to do such a thing.
You could do a netsh firewall command to do it.

On 1/16/07, David Thielen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi;

 

Is there a WIX command to set an exception in the Windows firewall? If
so, what is it? And can it be set for a program we are not installing
(winword.exe)?

 

Thanks - dave

 

 

 

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www.windwardreports.com 

303-499-2544 x1185

 

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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Tony Hoyle
David Thielen wrote:
 In our case the AddIn hits the port as soon as Word starts so we need it 
 added on installation.

I'm curious why a Word addin would be listening for incoming 
connections?  (without giving away any trade secrets of course).

Tony



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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Mike Dimmick
OK, so I see that your port (1707) is registered with IANA, so you could do
it by opening this port, although other applications could get a surprise if
they are allocated this port by the OS. Presumably you're broadcasting in
order to find a licensing server? As I recall, you don't need to open a
firewall exception if you don't bind your UDP socket to a particular port
number - the firewall will then set up a short-duration dynamic rule to
allow responses. If your licensing server then connects back to the add-in
over TCP (i.e. the add-in implements a TCP listener), then you do need the
firewall exception.

However, I think this is a poor design: you should have the licensing server
respond with a yes/no answer in a UDP packet sent to the client, or if you
need a longer conversation than will fit in a single UDP packet, have the
licensing server respond to the client with its address, then have the
client connect to the server over TCP (the server listening for connections)
to proceed with the licensing handshake. Outbound connection requests are
not filtered by Windows Firewall.

UDP gets a bit of a poor reputation, which isn't really deserved - for small
amounts of data, where there won't be more than one packet's worth of data
in response, it's fine. DNS is perfectly happy with UDP although it supports
both for larger responses. Kerberos likewise supports both; you are supposed
to use UDP for the initial ticket request. In LAN environments you can use a
payload of up to around 1400 bytes (to allow for VPNs) - any more and you
risk packet loss due to fragmentation.

If the client is broadcasting to find a licensing server, you necessarily
require that the licensing server is present on the same subnet as the
clients. This might be a problem for some enterprises. Others may have
firewalls or NATs in between different parts of their networks; in the case
of the NAT the server will not see the client's true IP address and will be
unable to connect back to the client.

I realise this has drifted a long way from WiX, but I felt it was still
useful to have others' input.

-- 
Mike Dimmick
(maintainer of a UDP-based thin-client application server which really ought
to be using TCP now that messages regularly exceed 500 bytes)

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Our copy protection is a UDP broadcast and a TCP reply to limit the
totally number of AddIns in use to what is licensed.

So we definitely want that port opened no matter what :)



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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread David Thielen
It's all peer to peer, no server. So each AddIn listens for the UDP
broadcasts and replies to the broadcaster saying they exist.

The broadcast occurs at startup and if the number of replies is greater
than the license allows that AddIn is disabled. So the first N can run,
the rest cannot.

Thanks - dave

 
 
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From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 3:45 PM
To: David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

OK, so I see that your port (1707) is registered with IANA, so you could
do
it by opening this port, although other applications could get a
surprise if
they are allocated this port by the OS. Presumably you're broadcasting
in
order to find a licensing server? As I recall, you don't need to open a
firewall exception if you don't bind your UDP socket to a particular
port
number - the firewall will then set up a short-duration dynamic rule to
allow responses. If your licensing server then connects back to the
add-in
over TCP (i.e. the add-in implements a TCP listener), then you do need
the
firewall exception.

However, I think this is a poor design: you should have the licensing
server
respond with a yes/no answer in a UDP packet sent to the client, or if
you
need a longer conversation than will fit in a single UDP packet, have
the
licensing server respond to the client with its address, then have the
client connect to the server over TCP (the server listening for
connections)
to proceed with the licensing handshake. Outbound connection requests
are
not filtered by Windows Firewall.

UDP gets a bit of a poor reputation, which isn't really deserved - for
small
amounts of data, where there won't be more than one packet's worth of
data
in response, it's fine. DNS is perfectly happy with UDP although it
supports
both for larger responses. Kerberos likewise supports both; you are
supposed
to use UDP for the initial ticket request. In LAN environments you can
use a
payload of up to around 1400 bytes (to allow for VPNs) - any more and
you
risk packet loss due to fragmentation.

If the client is broadcasting to find a licensing server, you
necessarily
require that the licensing server is present on the same subnet as the
clients. This might be a problem for some enterprises. Others may have
firewalls or NATs in between different parts of their networks; in the
case
of the NAT the server will not see the client's true IP address and will
be
unable to connect back to the client.

I realise this has drifted a long way from WiX, but I felt it was still
useful to have others' input.

-- 
Mike Dimmick
(maintainer of a UDP-based thin-client application server which really
ought
to be using TCP now that messages regularly exceed 500 bytes)

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To: Tony Hoyle; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

Our copy protection is a UDP broadcast and a TCP reply to limit the
totally number of AddIns in use to what is licensed.

So we definitely want that port opened no matter what :)



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Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Magus

How about using the DX Sample FirewallInstallHelper. It has all that your
looking for.  First get the DirectX SDK, then click on the DirectX Sample
Browser.  Type in FirewallInstallHelper and install the project.  Look at
the documentation on how and what need to be in you MSI project and it is
pretty easy to convert those to wix way of doing things.

David Thielen wrote:
 
 Hi;
 
  
 
 Is there a WIX command to set an exception in the Windows firewall? If
 so, what is it? And can it be set for a program we are not installing
 (winword.exe)?
 
  
 
 Thanks - dave
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 David Thielen
 
 www.windwardreports.com
 
 303-499-2544 x1185
 
  
 
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