Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <41A1B6E7.20204@omnicore.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:52:39 +0100 From: Hans Kratz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com CC: Hans Kratz Subject: Cygwin rsync and the Window XP SP2 firewall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! We want to use cygwin rsync to implement an autoupgrade feature for our software. For that we implemented a script which connects to an anonymous rsync server on the default rsync port (873). This works just fine but there is one problem. When rsync is invoked the Windows firewall displays a message like this: "To help protect your computer, Windows Firewall has blocked this program from receiving unsolicited information for the Internet or a network" (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875353/en-us) Despite this message rsync'ing works just fine. This message is usually displayed if an application opens a port listening for inbound connections on a network interface. Opening a port on the loopback interface only does not provoke this behavior. Now my questions are: What does rsync do to provoke this message? How can I prevent this message from being displayed Version details: Windows version: XP SP 2 [Version 5.1.2600] rsync version: rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28 cygwin version (uname -r): 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) Please cc me as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks for your help! Best regards, Hans -- Hans Kratz Omnicore Software http://www.omnicore.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/