Re: XP boot troubles

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 15:49 -0400, Marty Connor wrote:
> Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 17:58 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > I decided to go to the old Windows standby and reinstall.  This time, I
> > was careful.  The iSCSI boot worked until I installed Norton Internet
> > Security 2009.  I did a different install of their 2010 product, but
> > disabled the firewall before I rebooted.  As soon as I enabled the
> > firewall, the iSCSI connection died and the machine froze.  
> > 
> 
> iSCSI requires a persistent connection to TCP port 3260, which
> Symantec/Norton Internet "Security" probably views as suspicious.

Yeah, either that or it blocks all connections first, then goes and
tries to read a list off the disk of what it can accept _later_. :)

> I don't use Windows much, and don't have much of a recommendation on how
> to deal with this problem.  You might speak to the folks at Symantec or
> ask on some Windows-oriented mailing lists or bboards.

Yeah, I'm not much of a Windows expert either.  I think I'll just turn
the firewall off. :) I did add a note in the wiki in case somebody else
runs into this.

-- Dave


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