On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:30:13PM +1200, Phillip Hutchings wrote: > On 6/20/06, Juiceman <juiceman69 at gmail.com> wrote: > >On 6/19/06, Phillip Hutchings <sitharus at sitharus.com> wrote: > >> On 6/20/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> > >> > So is it a panacea or a nightmare? Do we want UP&P support? > > > >> > >> It would have made my initial install easier, but not significantly > >> so. I think it'd certainly help the masses who don't know what port > >> forwarding is. > >> > > > >But also those same masses wouldn't know how to turn UP&P play on in > >Windows XP SP2 and beyond, so for most people its a non-starter. > > Last time I tried UPNP on SP2 it prompted me to allow it. However, it > was a Microsoft utility I was using.
Well if there's an easy way to turn it on automatically then perhaps we can include an option to do so in the installer? -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060620/500c47fd/attachment.pgp>
