Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-17 Thread André Pönitz
David Thielen It's all peer to peer, no server. So each AddIn listens for the UDP broadcasts and replies to the broadcaster saying they exist. The broadcast occurs at startup and if the number of replies is greater than the license allows that AddIn is disabled. So the first N can run, the

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Rob Mensching
) are hard things to get right. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi Wilson Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:33 AM To: David Thielen Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception It probably wouldn't be hard to do a Custom Action

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Rob Mensching
stable when they install our software. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:36 AM To: Levi Wilson; David Thielen Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception How would you the netsh

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Levi Wilson
It probably wouldn't be hard to do a Custom Action to do such a thing. You could do a netsh firewall command to do it. On 1/16/07, David Thielen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; Is there a WIX command to set an exception in the Windows firewall? If so, what is it? And can it be set for a

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Rob Mensching
Not today. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Thielen Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:23 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception Hi; Is there a WIX command to set an exception in the Windows firewall? If so, what

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Wilson, Phil
the installation. Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:01 AM To: Levi Wilson Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception Short

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Tony Hoyle
Wilson, Phil wrote: The other question to ask is whether this really belongs in the installation at all. The line between installation and configuration is sometimes a huge gray area, but this could be seen as application configuration that doesn't need to be in the installation. I've

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread David Thielen
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilson, Phil Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:46 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception The other question to ask is whether this really belongs in the installation at all. The line between

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Tony Hoyle
David Thielen wrote: In our case the AddIn hits the port as soon as Word starts so we need it added on installation. I'm curious why a Word addin would be listening for incoming connections? (without giving away any trade secrets of course). Tony

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Mike Dimmick
To: Tony Hoyle; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception Our copy protection is a UDP broadcast and a TCP reply to limit the totally number of AddIns in use to what is licensed. So we definitely want that port opened no matter what

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread David Thielen
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception OK, so I see that your port (1707) is registered with IANA, so you could do it by opening this port, although other applications could get a surprise if they are allocated this port by the OS. Presumably you're broadcasting in order to find a licensing

Re: [WiX-users] Set firewall exception

2007-01-16 Thread Magus
How about using the DX Sample FirewallInstallHelper. It has all that your looking for. First get the DirectX SDK, then click on the DirectX Sample Browser. Type in FirewallInstallHelper and install the project. Look at the documentation on how and what need to be in you MSI project and it is