Hi
The computer in question can receive messages from the client on another
computer when the application is running as a normal windows application.
It does not respond when running as a service.
But work well when the situation is reversed, meaning the applications and
computers.
And going further the about firewall and router issues, I have put the
computer in DMZ(router) and turned the firewall off?
thanks
Terry
"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
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> "Ted" <ted21@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> No, it does.
>
> No, it doesn't rule it out. I've already explained that.
>
>> Reread his post.
>>
>> He said:
>
> Which is exactly the same thing that I said. Computer 1 is not able to
> accept inbound connections from Computer 2. That is what he has described
> several times now. Again, running a server socket inside a service *IS NO
> DIFFERENT* than running it from inside a normal application. The socket
> API
> has no concept of the environment it is being run in. It's behavior
> inside
> a service is identical to its behavior in a normal application. So either
> Computer 1 is behind a firewall/router that is blocking Computer 2's
> connections, or else Computer 2 is not specifying Computer 1's IP/Port
> properly when trying to connect. Those are the only two possibilities
> that
> can explain the symptoms he has described so far. The service/non-service
> topic is irrelevant. For all we know, his service may simply not be
> configured in the firewall properly and his normal application is. Or his
> router's port forwarding settings are not configured properly on one port
> that the service is trying to use, but are ok on another port that the
> normal application uses. There is no way to know at this point because he
> has not provided any specific details about his particular network setup
> or
> code configurations, so there is no way to trace the problem further. He
> didn't even show any code or error messages yet.
>
>
> Gambit
