Re: Windows Media Server deployment

Hmmm, odd (not that I'd run a server without a firewall anyway).

If you get a command line up and do

netstat -an

Can you see the service listening on ports

80 TCP
554 TCP, UDP
1755 TCP, UDP

Or is something else hogging those services such as ISA server (1755)
or a web server (80) or Helix Server / Darwin Streaming Server (554) ?

Cheers - Neil


On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:16:29 -0800, "Igor"
<Igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Windows firewall was switched off before i installed WMS.
>
>Control panel/Windows firewall/Off
>
>I'm sure about that.
>
>Any ideas ???
>
>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:16:27 -0800, "Igor"
>> <Igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >We have successfully installed WMS on machine. We are running PLESK on same
>> >machine with WMS, but problem is that we cannot access to WMS stream from
>> >outside with mms:// or http:// protocol. Control protocols (http,mms,rtsp)
>> >are enabled. WMS http port is different then IIS http port. WMS works on http
>> >port 8000.
>> >
>> >We have multiple Ips and vhosts on that machine. Locally everything works
>> >perfect , but from outside ( as mentioned before ) nothing works as it
>> >should, and we do not have any firewall.
>>
>> ______________^^^ Are you *sure* about that ???
>>
>> Windows Server 2003 release 2 comes with the windows firewall switched
>> on by default, and WMS is not enabled to traverse that until you
>> specifically enable it. This is a perfectly reasonable security
>> measure to keep the box locked down until a server role is configured
>> and access permissions are set to your satisfaction.
>>
>> If in doubt, so to the firewall and the easiest way is to add
>> wmservices.exe to the exceptions list, as stated in this document
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/serve/firewall.aspx#WindowsFirewall
>>
>> HTH
>> Cheers - Neil
>>
.

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