Opening NT4 Ports...

I haven't looked at NT4 for a while, so when I was asked today to make sure
that a port (needed by an application) was open, I was stumped. I mean, I
remember NETSTAT and running it it did not display any info about the port
of interest, so my question is, "How do you open a specific port, on an NT
server?"

BTW, I googled for a while and found all sorts of obsure info regarding
ports, but not an answer to the above question.

TIA, to anyone that comes up with an answer.

You "open" a port on a computer by installing a service (software) that uses
that port. The port can be "blocked" by using a firewall and to allow the
port to be used you "open" a port in your firewall.

Do you have a firewall on the server?

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I haven't looked at NT4 for a while, so when I was asked today to make sure
>that a port (needed by an application) was open, I was stumped. I mean, I
>remember NETSTAT and running it it did not display any info about the port
>of interest, so my question is, "How do you open a specific port, on an NT
>server?"
>
> BTW, I googled for a while and found all sorts of obsure info regarding
> ports, but not an answer to the above question.
>
> TIA, to anyone that comes up with an answer.
>

Thank you very much for the reply. No, there is no firewall on the server.
They installed the application on 4 clients, and it runs fine, th eyn, when
they tried the same on the NT4 box, the application does not run and pops up
an error that the required port may be blocked.

"Danny Sanders" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> You "open" a port on a computer by installing a service (software) that
> uses that port. The port can be "blocked" by using a firewall and to allow
> the port to be used you "open" a port in your firewall.
>
> Do you have a firewall on the server?
>
> hth
> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
>
> "Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1197a$447723c8$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
>>I haven't looked at NT4 for a while, so when I was asked today to make
>>sure that a port (needed by an application) was open, I was stumped. I
>>mean, I remember NETSTAT and running it it did not display any info about
>>the port of interest, so my question is, "How do you open a specific
>>port, on an NT server?"
>>
>> BTW, I googled for a while and found all sorts of obsure info regarding
>> ports, but not an answer to the above question.
>>
>> TIA, to anyone that comes up with an answer.
>>
>
>

Someone mentioned yesterday that there is a text file in the system32
folder, where one can specify the ports that are needed (opened) by a
certain application. I was wondering if there is such a thing... It sounds
too simple...

"Danny Sanders" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> You "open" a port on a computer by installing a service (software) that
> uses that port. The port can be "blocked" by using a firewall and to allow
> the port to be used you "open" a port in your firewall.
>
> Do you have a firewall on the server?
>
> hth
> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
>
> "Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1197a$447723c8$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
>>I haven't looked at NT4 for a while, so when I was asked today to make
>>sure that a port (needed by an application) was open, I was stumped. I
>>mean, I remember NETSTAT and running it it did not display any info about
>>the port of interest, so my question is, "How do you open a specific
>>port, on an NT server?"
>>
>> BTW, I googled for a while and found all sorts of obsure info regarding
>> ports, but not an answer to the above question.
>>
>> TIA, to anyone that comes up with an answer.
>>
>
>

I would verify that the program *will* run on NT server.

In my experience *usually* you need one version to run on a server OS and
another version to run on a workstation OS.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"Mocacius" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thank you very much for the reply. No, there is no firewall on the
> server. They installed the application on 4 clients, and it runs fine, th
> eyn, when they tried the same on the NT4 box, the application does not run
> and pops up an error that the required port may be blocked.
>
> "Danny Sanders" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> You "open" a port on a computer by installing a service (software) that
>> uses that port. The port can be "blocked" by using a firewall and to
>> allow the port to be used you "open" a port in your firewall.
>>
>> Do you have a firewall on the server?
>>
>> hth
>> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
>>
>> "Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:1197a$447723c8$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
>>>I haven't looked at NT4 for a while, so when I was asked today to make
>>>sure that a port (needed by an application) was open, I was stumped. I
>>>mean, I remember NETSTAT and running it it did not display any info about
>>>the port of interest, so my question is, "How do you open a specific
>>>port, on an NT server?"
>>>
>>> BTW, I googled for a while and found all sorts of obsure info regarding
>>> ports, but not an answer to the above question.
>>>
>>> TIA, to anyone that comes up with an answer.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Not that I'm aware of.


DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
"Art (Mocacius)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Someone mentioned yesterday that there is a text file in the system32
> folder, where one can specify the ports that are needed (opened) by a
> certain application. I was wondering if there is such a thing... It
> sounds too simple...
>
> "Danny Sanders" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> You "open" a port on a computer by installing a service (software) that
>> uses that port. The port can be "blocked" by using a firewall and to
>> allow the port to be used you "open" a port in your firewall.
>>
>> Do you have a firewall on the server?
>>
>> hth
>> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
>>
>> "Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:1197a$447723c8$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
>>>I haven't looked at NT4 for a while, so when I was asked today to make
>>>sure that a port (needed by an application) was open, I was stumped. I
>>>mean, I remember NETSTAT and running it it did not display any info about
>>>the port of interest, so my question is, "How do you open a specific
>>>port, on an NT server?"
>>>
>>> BTW, I googled for a while and found all sorts of obsure info regarding
>>> ports, but not an answer to the above question.
>>>
>>> TIA, to anyone that comes up with an answer.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Thanks. I'm just trying to figure out what would be locking down that
specific port :-(

"Danny Sanders" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Not that I'm aware of.
>
>
> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
> "Art (Mocacius)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:e64ba$44774147$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
>> Someone mentioned yesterday that there is a text file in the system32
>> folder, where one can specify the ports that are needed (opened) by a
>> certain application. I was wondering if there is such a thing... It
>> sounds too simple...
>>
>> "Danny Sanders" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> You "open" a port on a computer by installing a service (software) that
>>> uses that port. The port can be "blocked" by using a firewall and to
>>> allow the port to be used you "open" a port in your firewall.
>>>
>>> Do you have a firewall on the server?
>>>
>>> hth
>>> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
>>>
>>> "Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:1197a$447723c8$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
>>>>I haven't looked at NT4 for a while, so when I was asked today to make
>>>>sure that a port (needed by an application) was open, I was stumped. I
>>>>mean, I remember NETSTAT and running it it did not display any info
>>>>about the port of interest, so my question is, "How do you open a
>>>>specific port, on an NT server?"
>>>>
>>>> BTW, I googled for a while and found all sorts of obsure info regarding
>>>> ports, but not an answer to the above question.
>>>>
>>>> TIA, to anyone that comes up with an answer.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

That's the IANA well known ports list. That has nothing to do with what is
open or not. Follow Dannys suggestion and make sure the app will run on NT4.

"Art (Mocacius)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:e64ba$44774147$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
> Someone mentioned yesterday that there is a text file in the system32
> folder, where one can specify the ports that are needed (opened) by a
> certain application. I was wondering if there is such a thing... It
sounds
> too simple...
>
> "Danny Sanders" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > You "open" a port on a computer by installing a service (software) that
> > uses that port. The port can be "blocked" by using a firewall and to
allow
> > the port to be used you "open" a port in your firewall.
> >
> > Do you have a firewall on the server?
> >
> > hth
> > DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
> >
> > "Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:1197a$447723c8$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
> >>I haven't looked at NT4 for a while, so when I was asked today to make
> >>sure that a port (needed by an application) was open, I was stumped. I
> >>mean, I remember NETSTAT and running it it did not display any info
about
> >>the port of interest, so my question is, "How do you open a specific
> >>port, on an NT server?"
> >>
> >> BTW, I googled for a while and found all sorts of obsure info regarding
> >> ports, but not an answer to the above question.
> >>
> >> TIA, to anyone that comes up with an answer.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

That's what I suggested, as well, but the tech that was sent to install the
application (I was not present at the time), insisted that he hast installed
it on servers many times and this is a "locked port" problem.

"Danny Sanders" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I would verify that the program *will* run on NT server.
>
> In my experience *usually* you need one version to run on a server OS and
> another version to run on a workstation OS.
>
> hth
> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
>
> "Mocacius" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Thank you very much for the reply. No, there is no firewall on the
>> server. They installed the application on 4 clients, and it runs fine, th
>> eyn, when they tried the same on the NT4 box, the application does not
>> run and pops up an error that the required port may be blocked.
>>
>> "Danny Sanders" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> You "open" a port on a computer by installing a service (software) that
>>> uses that port. The port can be "blocked" by using a firewall and to
>>> allow the port to be used you "open" a port in your firewall.
>>>
>>> Do you have a firewall on the server?
>>>
>>> hth
>>> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
>>>
>>> "Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:1197a$447723c8$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
>>>>I haven't looked at NT4 for a while, so when I was asked today to make
>>>>sure that a port (needed by an application) was open, I was stumped. I
>>>>mean, I remember NETSTAT and running it it did not display any info
>>>>about the port of interest, so my question is, "How do you open a
>>>>specific port, on an NT server?"
>>>>
>>>> BTW, I googled for a while and found all sorts of obsure info regarding
>>>> ports, but not an answer to the above question.
>>>>
>>>> TIA, to anyone that comes up with an answer.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Thanks. I'll go back and ask them to make sure that the application is
compatible with NT4.

"Neteng" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> That's the IANA well known ports list. That has nothing to do with what is
> open or not. Follow Dannys suggestion and make sure the app will run on
> NT4.
>
> "Art (Mocacius)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:e64ba$44774147$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
>> Someone mentioned yesterday that there is a text file in the system32
>> folder, where one can specify the ports that are needed (opened) by a
>> certain application. I was wondering if there is such a thing... It
> sounds
>> too simple...
>>
>> "Danny Sanders" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > You "open" a port on a computer by installing a service (software) that
>> > uses that port. The port can be "blocked" by using a firewall and to
> allow
>> > the port to be used you "open" a port in your firewall.
>> >
>> > Do you have a firewall on the server?
>> >
>> > hth
>> > DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
>> >
>> > "Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> > news:1197a$447723c8$42a70da1$(E-Mail Removed) ervers.com...
>> >>I haven't looked at NT4 for a while, so when I was asked today to make
>> >>sure that a port (needed by an application) was open, I was stumped. I
>> >>mean, I remember NETSTAT and running it it did not display any info
> about
>> >>the port of interest, so my question is, "How do you open a specific
>> >>port, on an NT server?"
>> >>
>> >> BTW, I googled for a while and found all sorts of obsure info
>> >> regarding
>> >> ports, but not an answer to the above question.
>> >>
>> >> TIA, to anyone that comes up with an answer.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>