Re: Linux iptables/netfilter and Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing

From: Wine Development (wine@sweeney.demon.co.uk)
Date: 03/15/02

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    From: Wine Development <wine@sweeney.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:39:23 +0000

    Timothy Gleason wrote:
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I am trying to connect to a Windows 2000 PC running Netmeeting's
    > Remote Desktop Sharing. The Windows 2K PC is behind my Linux
    > firewall(RedHat 7.2 - kernel 2.4). Has anyone gotten this to work?

    The MS advice on firewalls and netmeeting is to allow all traffic on
    ports 1024 and above.

    The advice in 'Building Internet Firewalls' about Netmeeting is "Do
    not let this through your firewall".

    Go figure. 

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