WindowsXP SP2 firewall & Retrospect Client 6.0.110

[impala]

If there's a more appropriate forum, the moderator is welcome to move it.

 

You could follow the clumsy gui steps of Knowledgebase article # 1109 with each client to open the WindowsXP SP2 firewall. Or, you could write a batch file as follows and run it on the clients (my preference):

 

Code:

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 netsh firewall add portopening all 497 retrospect enable custom 172.19.112.0/255.255.255.0 

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This is one single line command.

It opens port 497 for both TCP and UDP with a custom scope of subnet 172.19.112.0 and a mask of 255.255.255.0 and names the entry 'retrospect'

 

My backup server is DHCP'ed on subnet 172.19.112.0