From: 1D Man on 10 Aug 2010 05:07 "Joe" wrote: > Is this a normal situation for him, i.e. did his old laptop work from > this location/Net connection? Many unorthodox types of connection allow > only a few basic protocols to work, and block everything else. Yes a normal situation. Our other guys on the ship can connect to their PCs. The guy who's having the problem tried to connect before he went offshore and was unable to. > Which SBS is this? If SBS2003, it would seem that port 4125 is being > blocked somewhere. XP doesn't have an outgoing firewall by default, but > the AV may have lots of extra features, which may include outgoing > packet filtering. Yes SBS2003 > Again if SBS2003, are you able to check whether packets to TCP port 4125 > are reaching the SBS? The Microsoft Network Monitor program can check > this, or Wireshark. It's best to arrange a particular time to make the > attempt, as either program will collect a lot of data. It's easy to > filter, but slow if many megabytes are involved. There are SBS logs > which show https connections, but we already know that is working. > > -- > Joe Thanks Joe I'm going to check the ports aren't being blocked. I tried disabling the firewall but he has Kaspersky which filters the traffic too. I'll report back. |