Firewall Ports

[jeffrey]

Hi,

What port do you need to have open to allow XP SP1 computer to connect to a
XP SP2 computer with the firewall on? I can use run (XPSP1 ip address) and
access the files, but if I use run (XPSP2 ip address) I can`t access the
files, unless I turn off the firewall.

I don`t know what port it uses when accessing another computers files. My
computers that have XPSP2 have no problems accessing other computers with
XPSP2 on it, just the XPSP1 can`t access the XPSP2 computers with the
firewall on. Thanks for any help.

Jeff

 

[Ross Durie]

Ports 135, 137, 138, 139, 445

 

[jeffrey]

Hi,

Those ports are open as defaults, its not the one that is blocking the XPSP1
machine from accessing the XPSP2 machines. Using Fport, I see ports 2267 to
2293 opening up when I am accessing XPSP2 computers via their IP address. I
don`t know what port XPSP1 computer was trying to use when trying to connect
to my XPSP2 computers via ipaddress.

Jeff

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You should activeate "File and Printer Sharing" exception. This way, all
the required ports would be available.