At 12:48 PM 8/20/2004, you wrote: >Avery Bunker wrote: >>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. > >Unfortunately, the XP firewall's automatic popup when a program tries to open a port >doesn't work if the program is a service that cannot interact with the desktop.
Cannot or does not? You can always allow the service to interact with the desktop. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
