I have a server process which is affected by the newly enabled firewall in XP
SP2, as it should be. The first time the process starts up the user is
presented with a dialog box to configure it into the firewall. Regardless of
whether the user configures it or not, the process is entered into the
firewall configuration. If the user chooses not to configure, the process is
granted no inbound connection access, but can still make outgoing
connections. If the user chooses to configure the process, they can choose
whatever they want. Regardless of the choice, the user is never presented
with the dialog again until the process is deleted from the firewall
configuration.

Can any one suggest me the new API set available in SDK that appears to
allow your application to add itself to the firewall rules without user
intervention in Win XP with SP2.

Your question would be one you want to post in one of the SDK newsgroups
such as Microsoft.public.platformsdk.security or networking. --- Steve


"sanjith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a server process which is affected by the newly enabled firewall in
>XP
> SP2, as it should be. The first time the process starts up the user is
> presented with a dialog box to configure it into the firewall. Regardless
> of
> whether the user configures it or not, the process is entered into the
> firewall configuration. If the user chooses not to configure, the process
> is
> granted no inbound connection access, but can still make outgoing
> connections. If the user chooses to configure the process, they can
> choose
> whatever they want. Regardless of the choice, the user is never presented
> with the dialog again until the process is deleted from the firewall
> configuration.
>
> Can any one suggest me the new API set available in SDK that appears to
> allow your application to add itself to the firewall rules without user
> intervention in Win XP with SP2.