From: 1D Man on
"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.