Re: [python-win32] windows firewall woes?

2012-03-09 Thread Andrew Hammond
Turns out that I needed to add app.Name = 'Python' to the code. Ugh. Andrew On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: > As a couple of guesses, I'd ensure you do this from an elevated process > (ie, "run as administrator") and also be sure to use fully-qualified paths. > > (The error

Re: [python-win32] windows firewall woes?

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Hammond
As a couple of guesses, I'd ensure you do this from an elevated process (ie, "run as administrator") and also be sure to use fully-qualified paths. (The error code shown appears to be ERROR_INVALID_POINTER, but that might be a red herring) Mark On 9/03/2012 11:16 AM, Andrew Hammond wrote: W

Re: [python-win32] windows firewall woes?

2012-03-08 Thread Andrew Hammond
With the following code, def add_firewall_exception(): app = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('HNetCfg.FwAuthorizedApplication', 0) app.ProcessImageFileName = r'\Python26\python.exe' app.Scope = NET_FW_SCOPE_ALL app.IpVersion = NET_FW_IP_VERSION_ANY app.Enabled = True firew

Re: [python-win32] windows firewall woes?

2012-03-06 Thread Bill Tutt
This sounds more like a problem with your approach to servicing your product, and not necessarily a python windows specific problem. I can point you in the direction to create the firewall exception, but you would still need to figure out how to arrange to have the code actually execute. Windows

[python-win32] windows firewall woes?

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Hammond
We have python running on a number of devices in the field and have experienced problems where it appears that a windows update has removed a windows firewall exception, blocking our python service from operating. Has anyone else experienced something like this? Is there a way to fix it without hu