So far I'm quietly watching the progress of topics like this in this discussion list as well as several other discussion forums and what I read is frightening, which to me states that Microsoft is right regarding automatically turning on the firewall on XP's service pack 2. What I don't agree with is turning off the messenger and alerted services, but at least this is documented and can be turned back on again, but this is going off-topic regarding this list.
John, Windows XP has always had a firewall built in, all be it a simple firewall, but it's there. For convenience the default configuration was that it was not turned on. Another frightening situation is that many ISP auto-installation scripts that branded Outlook Express, Internet Explorer and auto-installed the connectiod omitted to turn the firewall on! So the poor un-educated user would then connect with their modem to the Internet and expose the entire operating system to the world. Now that this mechanism has been changed everyone is complaining because it's taking more effort to host servers and services on Windows XP with SP-2 installed. It is not a good idea for any application program to control the port forwarding rules on ANY firewall. If this was the case then a virus could land on the computer and configure the firewall itself to allow hackers to communicate with it. Like UPnP on routers is bad news. I have this facility turned off and take time to turn ports and forwarding rules on and off manually. What everyone really needs to do, regardless of the program being used, find out what inbound ports a legitimate service/server requires and manually configure the firewall and/or router. At 01:14 08/09/2004, Wall, John wrote: >Hi Alan, > >I have not installed SP2 on XP platform although I did once install the beta >version and immediately uninstalled it because nothing worked afterwards. > >My understanding of SP2 XP is that is closes off all ports thus VNC I assume >is stumped. I have not reinstalled SP2 XP but our employer is eager to start >the procedure and I am concerned about VNC with this installation. > >As yet haven't read up on what to do but I have read that SP2 XP installs a >firewall with all ports closed off. > >So it is possible you need to look at the need to open port 5900 VNC and >5800 Javascript VNC via a browser. > >Just a thought but I would be interested from fellow users of VNC as I >myself will need to know how to open these ports once SP2 XP has been >installed. > >Regards. > >John > >> ---------- >> From: Alan Watchorn[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2004 12:39 AM >> To: VNC List >> Subject: RE: server closed connection unexpectedly >> >> I use VNC 4.0 on WinXP, Win2000 and Win98 and I have not had any problems. >> I installed for the first time using VNC 4.0 and have not had any >> experience >> with earlier versions or upgrades. Have you tried uninstalling the old >> version and installing the new version from scratch? >> >> Alan Watchorn >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (760) 692-4300 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:40 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: server closed connection unexpectedly >> >> >> Today i updated form vnc 3.3 to 4.0... since i'm "using" 4.0, on XP (pro >> and home whith SP2), i always get the message: >> "server closed connection unexpectedly" if i try to connect to the >> server. >> At the application log i found many errors: "SocketManager: unknown >> network event for listener". >> There is no firewall on this machines, also the XP firewall is inactive. >> >> Im really frustrated about this... all previous versions worked fine >> whithout of problems! >> _______________________________________________ >> VNC-List mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To remove yourself from the list visit: >> http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list >> _______________________________________________ >> VNC-List mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To remove yourself from the list visit: >> http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list >_______________________________________________ >VNC-List mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To remove yourself from the list visit: >http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
