Re: problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-10 Thread Irmen de Jong
Paul McGuire wrote: > I would investigate Windows security settings as a likely culprit. My > guess is that you are running WinXP SP2 with the default security > policies, which are likely to prohibit such promiscuous behavior. > > Here's a URL that may shed some light, it seems surprisingly > i

Re: problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-10 Thread Paul McGuire
On Apr 10, 3:30 pm, Irmen de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > >> I am not sure if this is at all relevant - but I seem to recall seeing > >> something once that had a list of socket numbers, splitting them > >> between UDP & TCP - can the socket actually rx UDP? > Yea

Re: [offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-10 Thread Irmen de Jong
> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >> I am not sure if this is at all relevant - but I seem to recall seeing >> something once that had a list of socket numbers, splitting them >> between UDP & TCP - can the socket actually rx UDP? Yeah, as I wrote: when I'm sending UDP packets to the port directly on t

Re: [offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Holden
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Irmen de Jong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> >>> Try running the service impersonating another user (not LOCAL_SERVICE, >>> the default). >>> You can change that from the service control panel. >> Alas, that didn't change anything. >>

Re: [offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-10 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Irmen de Jong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > > Try running the service impersonating another user (not LOCAL_SERVICE, > > the default). > > You can change that from the service control panel. > > Alas, that didn't change anything. > I made it run as a user account

Re: [offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-09 Thread Irmen de Jong
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > Ouch, no more ideas from me. You'll surely get more answers from a > Windows networking group - this appears not to be related to Python anyway. Yeah I know that... That's what I mentioned in my original post... But I'm a noob on that type of thing, no idea where to ge

Re: [offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-09 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:08:03 -0300, Irmen de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > >> Try running the service impersonating another user (not LOCAL_SERVICE, >> the default). >> You can change that from the service control panel. > > Alas, that didn't change anything. >

Re: [offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-09 Thread Irmen de Jong
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > Try running the service impersonating another user (not LOCAL_SERVICE, > the default). > You can change that from the service control panel. Alas, that didn't change anything. I made it run as a user account that has admin privileges even, and it still doesn't respond

Re: [offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-09 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:43:23 -0300, Irmen de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I have this UDP socket server that binds on ('',9090) and is used > to be a broadcast responder. It works fine when I start the server > from the cmd prompt. UDP broadcast packets sent to ('',9090) > arrive in the

[offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-09 Thread Irmen de Jong
Hello Sorry this might be a bit offtopic but I don't really know where else to post this question. If you could point me in the right direction that is much appreciated. I'm running into a weird thing on Windows XP. I'm using Python 2.5 with latest pywin32 from Mark Hammond. I have this UDP soc