I don't know about MS 'thinking about it.' If you haven't seen how
thoroughly locked down Longhorn Server is, you haven't seen locked down.
Vista is pretty locked down and the FTP manager would be a big vulnerability
point.
"Eric G. van der Paardt" <> wrote in message
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> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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>> Can't you just make a program exception in the Security Center/Firewall
>> for the File Transfer manager? You should be able to browse for the
>> program and add it to the list.
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> I don't believe my problem to be the firewall on the machine, I'm certain
> that microsoft has thought of that. My problem is I have a big mean
> firewall sitting between my network and the internet, and it only lets out
> what I tell it too. So really I'm just trying to figure out what ports to
> open outward to let the "Microsoft File Transfer Manager" talk to the
> mothership.
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>> "Eric G. van der Paardt" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>>I have my network very well locked down. Enough so that I am fairly sure
>>>it is what is causing all my beta reports just to sit in the 'Microsoft
>>>File Transfer Manager' dealy.
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me at protocol specs, or just more information, so I
>>> can actually contribute to the beta program?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>> Eric
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