Firewall of windows 7

arsalan921

there is one software developed by our software house...

that software uses port 1433 ...

this software has been installed on both client pc and server pc... ( server and client side are both running windows 7 os, not server 2008 or 2003 )...

client cannot establish a connection with the server when windows firewall is on... if i turn it off windows firewall then the connection is established....

i have made 2 rules on server pc.. 1 for tcp 1433 .. 1 for udp 1433.. inbound rules .. enabled them .. so that i can turn on firewall and allow connection on these ports... but with windows firewall on and these two rules defined.. the connection is still not established...

then i created one more rule which allows all programs to establish a connection .. then the connection is established... but allowing all programs to establish a connection is same like disabling firewall...

so what can be done that this particular application is allowed to establish connection b/w client and server while windows firewall is on ...

arsalan921

no one here has info on this ... ?

Asif Dasl

At a guess I would assume you need to make an outbound rule also. Windows 7 has an inbound and outbound firewall and when you turn it off it works but when it is on only the inbound rule exists at present. You need to try making an outbound rule.

Povilas

Take a good look at Advanced -> profiles on Rule's properties. Are you applying rules on right profile? It happened me once - set rule right, checked ports and scopes twenty times and nothing - still blocking. And only then I saw that rule was set only for "domain" profile, and actual profile on connection was set as "work". Ticked right checkbox and all went fine.