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Stupid Firewall Wont Turn off

PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:26 pm
by Mailas
Im trying to make a server on halo, but my damn firewall doesnt wanna turn off.
LOOK!!!
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Someone said that the reason the server will not let anyone in is because of my router internet firewall. How do I turn that off?

PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:22 pm
by Skelator03
long into the router and allow access to the port where you are making the server

PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:45 pm
by Mailas
How? I havnt worked with routers before, and I cannot just edit the Ip settings. Its set to my curent IP. (pm me for my ip if you are helping on this topic)

PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:16 pm
by the_end_is_near
he he long time no see skeletor, here is how i unblocked unreal tornament at the school comps---

1-open controll panel
2-click secerity center
3-click windows fire wall
4-click exceptions tab
5-click add program
6-scroll through the program list or hit browse and find the .exe in your hard drive (or what ever strange drive you might use :lol: )

after hitting "ok" try it out and it should work

PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:07 pm
by Mailas
What .exe file?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:02 pm
by the_end_is_near
the halo.exe... its somewhere in the program files .. here is where the demos exe is found
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Trail

and this is what the .exe might say

halo
Halo
Microsoft Corperation


...if only i could get a dang image

PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:20 pm
by Mailas
Nope, they still arnt able to join the server, and how do I turn off my router firewall?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:55 pm
by the_end_is_near
i think there is a switch in the back... not 100% sure thogh

PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:06 pm
by Skelator03
lol that wont work hahahaha aim me so i can walk you through it you have to get into the router allow the open port and then open the port on your comp then after that u can test it if that doesnt work then we got to do some other stuff

PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:46 am
by Skelator03
SCREW THIS DUDE I WAS TRYING TO HELP HIM IN THE MIDDLE HER JUST SIGNS OFF WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING EXTREAMLY UNGRATEFUL SO DONT HELP HIM

PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:48 am
by Mailas
Umm, you said to disable the network.