Classic Client and XP SP2

[brewerdude]

I've been trying to get the classic client for 5.0 to work with XP SP2 when the firewall is enabled. I know that according to bulletin P-2004-0395-Global-Rev1 you're supposed to add all of the Symposium excutables to the firewall's unblock list. Yes, all 40 of them! Our network admins have indicated that that's an unnacceptable solution for them. (They're response when reading the bulletin was "Did a child write Symposium??") I tried to get around it by just adding the Real-Time Display exectutables (nicrtmgr.exe and nicrtdsp.exe) to the list, but that didn't work. I also tried installing PEP G018C (which is supposed to add the executables to the expection list automatically), but that didn't work either.

Has anyone messed with this, and found out if the RTD's can get working without adding all the executables to the list?


Thanks.

 

[TheWorkingMan]

Ask your IT folks if any of them have ever wrote any software!!!! Then ask them if they want your client application from Nortel to work!!!! Then ask them to follow the software bulletin!! Just joking or maybe not!!!! Not sure about this one.... I take it that your company will not allow you to disable the microsoft firewall?? After all, if they are doing their job correctly you should be fine inside the network. You would have firewalls between you and the dirty side of the mix!! Just my little mind wondering!!!

Good luck!!
TWM

 

[Sympology]

It's funny, I do both network and Telephone systems. It's just not Symposium that uses multiple applications for one "software". Tell them its not a piece of software but a suite. After all, MS Office it not one piece of software and neither is Nortel's Site Manager.
Tell them to remove head from backside, learn how to roll out changes autoamtically and do their job!
Stu.

Only the truly stupid believe they know everything.
Stu.. 2004

 

[brewerdude]

We put all the ports in the exception list and RTD still didn't work. Before I go to all the trouble of having all the executables put into the exception list, was just wondering if anyone got this to work at all?