Re: setting up proxy settings and firewall software blocking WMP10

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Nathan,

Generally: Set whatever the "Allow outgoing TCP ports" option is, then
specify "554, 1755" as the selected ports in the firewall software.

-Reginald
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(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"Derrick217" <Derrick217@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jeff,
>
> I have been doing Windows Media with Live and On-demand streams and I keep
> noticing a consistent problems with viewing content where I believe the
> Administrator may have a proxy server or Firewall software blocking some
> ports. What's the work around for something like this? How do viewers in
> for
> example a campus environment or college campus view a Windows Media stream
> with such problems? Does the network administrator have to go in manually
> into the player settings and give the name of the the proxy server (I
> assume
> the network admin would know this) and then supply a port that windows
> media
> content will streaming on like 1755 for mms or 8080 for http. I
> appreciate
> your help. I have a live stream and on-demand streams that I want folks
> to
> tune into from different places and they might have firewalls or proxy
> servers in those places. I would like to tell them how they need to set
> up
> the Windows Media player on their end.
>
> Thanks
>
>


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