Re: Firefox and NoCat
Mathieu Bouchonnet <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.nocat |
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| Message-ID | <20041112174440.43e5cdc8@mbouchonnet2> |
Hi all, Le Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:14:17 -0500 "Scott Tully" <[email protected]> ecrivait: > I have not had a response if this suggestion worked from the users >that complained - but this was my response to them: i don't think so... > Internet Explorer will authenticate successfully because it probably works with the other components of SP2, it's a "known" > program. Maybe the SP2 Windows "firewall" is to blame. It probably allows IE to do things that other "programs" can't do... > like access port 5280. IE is probably a "trusted" program by default :-o Actually the SP2 firewall allows everything to go out, it just filters for the process acting as servers what can come in. > If you have sp2 try turning off the windows "firewall" > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/internet/sp2_wfintro.mspx > > Maybe add firefox to the exception list > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/internet/sp2_wfexceptions.mspx > > Like i said - this is a guess on my part... I am not about to install >SP2 to test it.... I am installing it right now (actually it began, 1 hour ago) to clear this issue, we heavyly insist on using firefox and using firewalls so it's could be a big issue here. More as soon as I will be able to reproduce this... Regards, Mathieu Bouchonnet