I just dealt with this situation
I was able to resolve the issue of installing WinXP SP2 using VNC and being able to access the system after rebooting the system with the firewall activated. I installed SP2 on a system and then added two port exceptions in Microsoft firewall. I then fire up regedit and searched for the port exception names and exported them to a file. Here's the resulting file contents...
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\GloballyOpenPorts\List]
"5900:TCP"="5900:TCP:*:Enabled:VNC" "5800:TCP"="5800:TCP:*:Enabled:VNC Java"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\GloballyOpenPorts\List]
"5900:TCP"="5900:TCP:*:Enabled:VNC" "5800:TCP"="5800:TCP:*:Enabled:VNC Java"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\GloballyOpenPorts\List]
"5900:TCP"="5900:TCP:*:Enabled:VNC" "5800:TCP"="5800:TCP:*:Enabled:VNC Java"
First you install SP2. Then when it finishes, uncheck the box for rebooting and click finish. Now open regedit and import the .reg file. Then reboot the system and you will be able to access the remote system via VNC.
This method would also be handy for setting other default exceptions.
I had tried accessing the firewall after installing SP2 but before rebooting but you can't because the firewall service is not running yet.
Thanks for all the replies to my question. I wouldn't have been able to figure this out without them.
James Weatherall wrote:
Vince,
What are the instructions you gave intended to achieve?
The problem that Mark is seeing is probably that SP2 has the firewall on by default - he either needs to disable the firewall or add an exception for the VNC port (usually 5900).
Cheers,
Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
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Subject: FW: windows xp sp2
AFTER setup of the service pack 2, stop the vnc server with 'winvnc -kill', then restart it with 'winvnc'
xp will ask what you want to do after restarting vnc...
for easy access, place winvnc and dll's in the windows dir.
ViNCe SimBox.NL
http://VNC.SimBox.NL/
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Swarts Verzonden: vrijdag 10 september 2004 14:45 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: windows xp sp2
I just downloaded sp2 for windows xp on both my local and remote
machines. When I try to connect from my remote machine, I get "Failed to
connect to server". This was not happening before the "upgrade". I have
made no changes in the vnc config.
Thanks.
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