Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?

[Avery Bunker]

I had problems with KDE. The firewall blocked it so I could not start KDE. 
After I took off Service Pack 2 it ran just fine. I looked at the firewall 
but not being a KDE expert had no clue on what ports needed to be added and 
which ones did not. It did add two services into the firewall that KDE used 
but ot still would not start. It would freeze on the splash screen.


From: Shankar Unni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:50:17 -0700
Charles Plager wrote:
    Microsoft is getting ready to push out SP2 via their automatic 
update.  What experiences have people had with using cygwin applications 
with sp2 installed (particularly with the "improved" firewall)?
I've been running SP2 (final network admin install) for the last week. No 
problems with ordinary usage.

I don't run any network daemons like FTPd or sshd, but even for them, the 
only thing you have to do is to open a firewall port (or allow the program 
to listen on any port - there are two ways to punch holes in the Windows 
firewall).

Note that the default mode of the FTP client will cause one of these port 
use warnings to pop up from Windows, because in its regular mode (i.e. not 
PASV), when you GET a file using FTP, the client actually listens on a 
port, and the server tries to open connection to push the data. Again, all 
you have to when Windows pops up the "program is trying to open port" 
dialog, is to say "OK" once.

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