Firewall blocks remoting connection.

Hi,

I am using remoting over a TCP channel. I have firewall enabled on my remoting server. This doesnt allow the clients to connect to the server. I want to bypass the server firewall for my application. This is a trusted intranet application running on Windows 2003 as server and Windows Xp as clients.

Can anybody help me in bypassing the server firewall using C# code

Thanks in advance !

-Sandeep

.NET Development29

You cannot bypass the firewall, you will have to add the application, or the ports your application uses to the firewalls exclusion list. Normally this is a manual operation which must be performed by the administrator of the machine.

You will either have to add a rule to your firewall to let the traffic through, like Sean said, or change your code to use a port that you know is already open. Port 80 is usually a good choice because most firewalls are setup to let this traffic through, but there is a good chance you're win2k3 server is already running IIS on port 80. Could you use http channel instead and host your remoting objects in IIS

Thanks a lot guys !

-Sandeep