Thanks Lee for the response, but it's a no go. I guess in SP2 they removed the ability of "fine grain control" of what applications have access to down to port ranges and I think this is where the Net::FTP is being blocked at.
>From tests, each time I run the script the port on the local machine changes and I'm guessing that the firewall in SP2 is opening up a port that it sees Perl trying to use for one instance and the next time the same script is used, trying to access on a different port is being blocked. Anywho, there doesn't seem to be a way to open port ranges in the Firewall software for SP2. It's more "run program X, program X doesn't have permission to access internet, Prompt user asking if they want program X to access the internet, user clicks yes/no, that's all user does". You can edit the "scope" of the access rule, but that's all and it doesn't allow ports or port ranges in the manual config of IP's. Thanks for the idea to try though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leroy G. Blimegger Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:37 PM Subject: RE: Microsoft's SP2 Firewall blocking Net::FTP > I don't use the Windows Firewall in SP2 (I still prefer another vendor), but > I know you can open the Windows Security Center control panel, select > Windows Firewall and add programs and ports to the exception list > (Exceptions Tab), which will allow access through the firewall for the > specified programs and/or ports. > > Hope this helps! > > Lee > > > Hey folks, > > Here is a little annoying problem from Billy again. With the > "beefier" version of the personal firewall that comes with Win XP in the > latest service pack (2) I've found that even when setting "Perl" to have > access to the internet, it's still blocking the connection. > > I've tried to set the connections to passive, but still no dice. > > Best I can tell there are no options in the firewall to set specific > port range that Perl can have access to. So, only work-a-round fer > now is to turn off the firewall and run the scripts then turn it back on. > > This isn't a live and death situation, I'm behind a hardware > firewall as is, but wouldn't mind having an extra layer of protection, just > wondering if anyone else has bumped into the same problem and have come by a > solution. > > > thanks, > > JY > > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
