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There is a warning about  leaving yourself vulnerable if you switch your firewall off,  but sometimes in order to eliminate that as the problem you need to switch it off. If you are behind a router then a firewall is only really necessary to prevent unauthorised outgoing traffic. NAT firewalls are extremely good at keeping out unwanted casual visitors but not so good at keeping in escapees. Any serious hacker will get through most publically available firewalls. However serious hackers are more interested in getting through the firewalls of large institutions and companys.

Switch your firewall off at your own risk!!! but if you want to eliminate a possible problem that's what you need to do.

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Eno,

I have my setup with Xp that lets FS2004 communicate "thru" the windows firewall.  It works fine.  I just had to add it to the list of "permitted" programs for the necessary ports.

I've tested it online on servers with port scanning....... works great.

As always..... your mileage my vary...... not available in all locations... and so on........

best,

.......................john

For blokes like your old Mate Fozzer, who hasn't got Windows Service Pack 2 installed, the particular route below, to gain access to the Firewall options is not available, eg:
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Microsoft Guide:

Note Never open a port for a program that you do not recognize.
1.    Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2.    Click Security Center.
3.    Click Windows Firewall.
4.    Click the Exceptions tab.
5.    Click Add Program.
6.    Click Browse.
7.    Locate the game's executable file, and then click Open. By default, this game is installed in the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\fs9.exe
8.    Click OK two times.
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"Security Centre" does not appear in the Control Panel to gain access to the Exceptions tab/Add Program/etc.

In this case, where is the "Exceptions" tab located...?

Cheers all...!

Paul... 8)...!

Note: I just use a simple Dial-Up Modem connected direct to the land-line...no Routers, Cable, etc...!

Hi John...!
SP 2 is a definite no-no for all sorts of reasons!, apart from the fact that it is too large to download in 2 hour 56K dial-up... ...!

I have no real problems with multi-player on dial-up, due to my processor and graphics card...(Frame rates 30+ locked).
The only probs were due to tracing Multiplayer hosts on the 'Net...!

Norton and Zone Alarm take care of my visitors....
...and last night's flight had them both active as well as my Windows Firewall being on...!
No problemo...!
So port 23456 on WSP worked OK...!

My system crash was due to pressing too many keys at the same time in flight...!!

Cheers...!

Paul.

...(don't ask about SP 2)...!

Eno, is it possible if i know my own IP adress to give this to everyone who i want to multiplayer with and then they can connect to my computer or is this not possible.

Not sure if this question belongs here or not as im a n00b to the site but have been playing FS as long as i can remember.  Anyways My brother and I play multiplayer through our own router and i host the game seeing as i have the better of the two computers.  Everything is fine but the only problem is when we switch to aircraft other then FS a/c. 

For instance we want to fly F-16s from the keys to palm beach and we switch but it shows one another in cessna's.  How can i fix this?  Please help.

Hagar wrote on Jan 10^th, 2007 at 2:42pm:


it does make sense and i even made sure we had the same aircraft and it still doesn't work

and a good time was had by all.