On 6/20/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > 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?
I don't know about turning it on permanently, but at you can enable it until you reboot by doing the following two commands from the command line on Windows XP: net start ssdpsrv net start upnphost If someone else can verify it works on their setup also, that would be good because I may have changed my default services... > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEl/ZAHzsuOmVUoi0RAinhAJ9MHgq8NKxMXC8hIuqBYABYBce3wwCdFwcG > VaXGi1JxQtKSbuOAm74mkIM= > =cDtn > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > > -- I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. - Voltaire
