Topic: Ident and XP firewall

[sdsheldon]

Is there anyway to force SME to not use the ident port 113? Problem is when Windows firewall is on it blocks the E-Smith request on port 113 for IDENT, thus no proxy service. It works when we allow port 113 on the firewall but I want to stop E-Smith from using it instead of making a million desktop changes. I have tried the different proxy access methods(transparent, etc.) to no avail.....
Thanks!

[treyh]

What port would you like it to use?

[sdsheldon]

None, We would like that it not use any port, and make no request as we are not using IDENT for auditing at this time.
Thanks,

[sdsheldon]

Does anybody even use E-Smith as a proxy? If so I'd expect this problem to have come up more often. Is this a POS or what?

[treyh]

it has to use a port, otherwise it can't "talk" with the computers on your network.

If you are wanting to use SME as a transparent proxy then your best bet is to open that port on every machine in your network.

[sdsheldon]

That's what I was afraid of. Thanks for the input.

[treyh]

If you don't want open the ports on every machine in your network, installs Dansguardian from dungog.net on your sme box.

It will allow you to change the port to whatever you like, like 8080 which shouldn't be blocked on winxp's firewall

Thats what I use in our office.