I have Windows XP Pro with SP2 and an Intel Netport printer server and I
can't print when the windows firewall is turned on. I went into the Control
Panlel/windows firewall and tried to create an exeption but it asks me for a
Name and a Port Number and this is where I'm stumped. I went into the
printer properties but no-where could I find a port number. Under port it
said IntelPS Parr2, which the firewall won't accept. How do I get this
working? Thanks for any help.

I use the Intel NetportExpress. I set them up using a Standard TCP/IP port
in LPR mode to the LPT1_PASSTHRU share on the Netport.

How are you creating the printer attached to the Netport device?

The port number in the Firewall setting has Zero to do with a printing port
name. Firewalls reference TCP/IP port numbers.

For example the file and printing TCP/IP Ports are 139 and 445 and UPD port
numbers 137 and 138.

If the Intel device requires some sort of backchannel communication, you can
also enable firewall logging to determine which port it wants to talk to.


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"tonj" <nospam@no-spam-ever.org> wrote in message
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>I have Windows XP Pro with SP2 and an Intel Netport printer server and I
> can't print when the windows firewall is turned on. I went into the
> Control
> Panlel/windows firewall and tried to create an exeption but it asks me for
> a
> Name and a Port Number and this is where I'm stumped. I went into the
> printer properties but no-where could I find a port number. Under port it
> said IntelPS Parr2, which the firewall won't accept. How do I get this
> working? Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
>

"Alan Morris [MSFT]" <alanmo@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:O8ukLot7FHA.1140@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>I use the Intel NetportExpress. I set them up using a Standard TCP/IP port in LPR mode to the LPT1_PASSTHRU share on the Netport.
>
> How are you creating the printer attached to the Netport device?
>
> The port number in the Firewall setting has Zero to do with a printing port name. Firewalls reference TCP/IP port numbers.
>
> For example the file and printing TCP/IP Ports are 139 and 445 and UPD port numbers 137 and 138.
>
> If the Intel device requires some sort of backchannel communication, you can also enable firewall logging to determine which port
> it wants to talk to.

thanks for your response and I did solve it.
my printer properties showed I was using port IntelPS-Parr2, which the firewall didn't recognise so I added a port and gave it the
same number as my printer server IP address on the network. The printer now works with the firewall on.