From: Shankar Unni <shankarunni@netscape.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
CC: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
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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