firewall trouble on Windows

2019-11-08 Thread Boylan, Ross
I have a physical machine H (host) running a virtual machine V.  Both are Win 
10 64 bit; vmware provides the virtualization.
Symantec EndPoint Protection (SEP) on H is blocking attempts to connect to my 
postgres 12 server  running on V.  I am trying to get it to permit the 
necessary traffic.

I'm pretty sure the installation of postgres takes care of this automatically:
1) SEP is running on V, but does not block the traffic (after disabling SEP on 
H)
2) H allowed the traffic a week ago and only started blocking after I 
uninstalled PG 11 from H.

So my guess is there is some fairly generic way of requesting access.  But I 
don't know what it is.  Any ideas, or pointers to the Windows installation code 
that's doing this?

There are instructions on the net for allowing access via Windows Firewall.  
But that is disabled on H, and all the configuration options take me to SEP.  
SEP allows exceptions, but I haven't found anything that looks like a firewall 
exception (as opposed to a virus or file exception).  Our admins have also not 
found out how to pull this off.

Thanks.
Ross Boylan



Re: firewall trouble on Windows

2019-11-08 Thread Adrian Klaver

On 11/8/19 12:41 PM, Boylan, Ross wrote:

I have a physical machine H (host) running a virtual machine V.  Both are Win 
10 64 bit; vmware provides the virtualization.
Symantec EndPoint Protection (SEP) on H is blocking attempts to connect to my 
postgres 12 server  running on V.  I am trying to get it to permit the 
necessary traffic.

I'm pretty sure the installation of postgres takes care of this automatically:
1) SEP is running on V, but does not block the traffic (after disabling SEP on 
H)
2) H allowed the traffic a week ago and only started blocking after I 
uninstalled PG 11 from H.

So my guess is there is some fairly generic way of requesting access.  But I 
don't know what it is.  Any ideas, or pointers to the Windows installation code 
that's doing this?

There are instructions on the net for allowing access via Windows Firewall.  
But that is disabled on H, and all the configuration options take me to SEP.  
SEP allows exceptions, but I haven't found anything that looks like a firewall 
exception (as opposed to a virus or file exception).  Our admins have also not 
found out how to pull this off.


?:

https://support.symantec.com/us/en/article.howto80775.html


Thanks.
Ross Boylan




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