Opening a port 1

[srenshaw]

How can I open a port on a Win 2003 server with SP1 that does not involve the SCW ?

Thanks.

 

[tubbaguts]

Do you have the SP1 firewall running? If not, no ports will be blocked by default. What port are you trying to use and how?

 

[srenshaw]

The firewall is disabled.

I need to open port 514.

I used Nmap to scan my machine and if I interpreted the scan result correctly, port 514 is closed.

I need 514 to be open so my 2003 server can receive the syslog messages from my Linux server.

 

[Serbtastic]

You need to start up a syslog daemon on your Windows 2003 machine, and it will open port 514 and be listening on this port. Run the following command to confirm this:

netstat -ano|find "514

 

[srenshaw]

Serbtastic,

I installed the first syslog daemon that I found (the one from Kiwi at

http://www.kiwisyslog.com/products.htm)

and then I ran that command... This is what I got:

UDP    0.0.0.0:514            *:*                                    1500

Does that mean that it is open ?

The thig is, I already have a listener that listen on port 514 but I don<t know how to open it.

 

[Serbtastic]

That means that the process at PID 1500 (use task manager to find out what is running at that PID) is listening on UDP port 514.

 

[srenshaw]

Great. Thanks again.