What are the firewall settings on Windows Server 2008/Win 7 target machines that will allow the program to work. Turning off the firewall works, but if anyone has the firewall rules figured out it would be very helpful.
-HL
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Key MasterPosted 10 months ago # -
doug
Key MasterHL – The program was designed with the expectation that the firewalls will be disabled on the remote machines, so I haven’t done any testing with firewalls enabled, and I don’t really plan to. The reboot functionality is implemented using WMI, so I think you’d have to set the remote machines to use a fixed port for WMI connections, otherwise it will be a dynamic port, which you’ll have no control over. See here for one possible example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219447%28VS.85%29.aspx
The WSUS installations are performed by a script which is executed on the remote machines by PsExec. Here are some links that might help.
http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=638
http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10839
http://www.governmentsecurity.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=11983I’d recommend using Wireshark to capture packets if you want a more detailed view of what’s happening at the network level.
-Doug
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