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Remote Assistance Firewall
  1. #1


    Puppy Breath Guest

    Remote Assistance Firewall

    Anyone happen to know what port(s) you'd need to open to use Remote
    Assistance through a (non-Windows) firewall?

    How about Remote Desktop?






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  2. #2


    Zack Whittaker Guest

    Re: Remote Assistance Firewall

    The ports should be the same. Can't you just add the Remote Desktop/Remote
    Assistance applications to the firewall instead?

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    "Puppy Breath" <alan@coolnerds.com> wrote in message
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    > Anyone happen to know what port(s) you'd need to open to use Remote
    > Assistance through a (non-Windows) firewall?
    >
    > How about Remote Desktop?
    >
    >
    >




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  3. #3


    Puppy Breath Guest

    Re: Remote Assistance Firewall

    Yeah, in Windows Firewall you can to that. I'm just wondering if I had some
    other firewall up, what ports would I need to open?



    "Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
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    > The ports should be the same. Can't you just add the Remote Desktop/Remote
    > Assistance applications to the firewall instead?
    >
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    > not
    > of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
    > that up!
    >
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    > "Puppy Breath" <alan@coolnerds.com> wrote in message
    > news:6BB670F5-2455-45C1-A12D-22B9196E38B5@microsoft.com...
    >> Anyone happen to know what port(s) you'd need to open to use Remote
    >> Assistance through a (non-Windows) firewall?
    >>
    >> How about Remote Desktop?
    >>
    >>
    >>

    >
    >



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  4. #4


    Jane Colman Guest

    Re: Remote Assistance Firewall

    Whichever 3rd party software firewall you used would automatically open the
    correct ports once you have given the program that needs to connect
    permission to do so in said firewall.

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  5. #5


    Andre Da Costa [Extended64] Guest

    Re: Remote Assistance Firewall

    3389 is the proper port for Remote Desktop. I have not had any issues though
    Connecting through RDC to my XP laptop. Thats how I work with Vista.
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    "Puppy Breath" <alan@coolnerds.com> wrote in message
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    > Anyone happen to know what port(s) you'd need to open to use Remote
    > Assistance through a (non-Windows) firewall?
    >
    > How about Remote Desktop?
    >
    >
    >




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  6. #6


    Puppy Breath Guest

    Re: Remote Assistance Firewall

    Do you have TS installed or something? I can't connect to/from my XP laptop.
    I always get an error message about no Terminal Server. (Though this laptop
    also have the PX Home Edition installed, which I'm sure doesn't help).



    "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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    > 3389 is the proper port for Remote Desktop. I have not had any issues
    > though Connecting through RDC to my XP laptop. Thats how I work with
    > Vista.
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    > "Puppy Breath" <alan@coolnerds.com> wrote in message
    > news:6BB670F5-2455-45C1-A12D-22B9196E38B5@microsoft.com...
    >> Anyone happen to know what port(s) you'd need to open to use Remote
    >> Assistance through a (non-Windows) firewall?
    >>
    >> How about Remote Desktop?
    >>
    >>
    >>

    >
    >



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