Still can't get it to work through firewall

Fri Sep 3 19:11:01 2004

I've had a lot of minor connectivity issues with the XPSP2 firewall myself. 
At this point I would suggest working with the Trend firewall or another 
free one (such as the Kerio firewall).  The new firewall appears to be very 
paranoid (generally a good thing) but does not appear to be consistent about 
notification.

Don't take this as a general opinion on the quality of the new version of 
the firewall; overall, it's behavior looks good for a tool designed to 
protect home users, and it does provide a fairly rich model for exceptions; 
I jsut haven't been able to work through getting it to behave the way I 
want.

Alan Watchorn wrote:
> Mickey,
>
> I understand the logistic problem and I don't have any real solution for
> that unless...  if you can connect to your work PC from your home PC
> using Remote Desktop, you appear like you are at work but you are
> really there at home where you can make changes to the firewall
> settings.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mickey Ferguson [mailto:MFerguson "at" peinc.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 9:01 AM
> To: alan "at" eshelmanappraisals.com
> Subject: RE: Still can't get it to work through firewall
>
>
> Quite honestly, I think so, but I'm not sure.  The reason I'm not sure
> is because very recently (last few weeks) I bought a new computer and
> dumped the old one.  It took me a little while to get the TM firewall
> set up (yes, I know, it was a bit dangerous to be connected to the
> Internet without any firewall...), and around the same time I also
> installed TM, XP SP2 and VNC.  I don't remember if I had VNC working
> with TM but not XP SP2.
>
> Ordinarily I would take a very methodical approach to troubleshooting
> it, by removing and/or disabling each of the individual firewall pieces.
> The problem, though, is that it's very difficult for me to test -
> logistically.  I connect from my PC at work to my PC at home, and I
> can't walk my wife through disabling the pieces one by one.  I have to
> do that myself.  If the problem were connecting to my work PC from home,
> I could have her attempt to connect after each change made here.  But
> it's the other way, and I don't have any way to have anyone here at my
> office, trying to connect to home, after I make each change.
>
> Does anyone know which firewall should be safer - the TM firewall or XP
> SP2 firewall?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
> Behalf Of Alan Watchorn
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 11:42 PM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Still can't get it to work through firewall
>
>
> Did the problem only occur since you installed SP2?  If so, disable the
> XP firewall and see if it works.  That won't cure your problem but at
> least you will be able to tell what is causing it.
>
> Alan Watchorn
> Eshelman Appraisals, Inc.
> alan "at" eshelmanappraisals.com
> Phone (760) 692-4302
> Fax (760) 692-4303
>
> Mickey Ferguson said:
>> No, I don't run remote desktop.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com]
>> On Behalf Of DILATED_ONE
>> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:56 AM
>> To: Mickey Ferguson; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
>> Subject: RE: Still can't get it to work through firewall
>>
>>
>> Do you run xp's remote desktop also?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com]
>> On Behalf Of Mickey Ferguson
>> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:35 AM
>> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
>> Subject: Still can't get it to work through firewall
>>
>>
>> I've got XP Pro at home, running SP2, with the SP2 firewall enabled
>> and Port 5900 opened up for in and out.  I've read the FAQ for VNC and
>
>> also searched the VNC mailing list recent archives for firewall.
>>
>> Prior to installing XP SP2 I also had installed Trend Micro's virus
>> protection and firewall.  I've configured it to the best of my
>> knowledge, and still things don't work when I try to connect to my
>> home machine.  I get an error of "server closed connection
>> unexpectedly". Any more help on trying to troubleshoot?
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