Opening port in XP firewall without warning dialog

[Lynda]

I am trying to open up a new port in the user's firewall during the
installation of our networking product.

Unfortunately in Windows XP (pre SP2), a scary dialog pops up that we're
trying to avoid.
XP SP2 does not show this warning.

The warning looks like this:
<user> is attempting to change or view this computer's Internet Connection
Protection settings. To give <user> permission to edit these settings for
as long as the program is open, click YES.

I tried:
INetSharingConfiguration::AddPortMapping() ==> Gives warning
INetFwOpenPorts->get_GloballyOpenPorts()->Add() ==> Only works in SP2

Note: I understand the purpose of the warning dialog, however we would like
to circumvent it anyway (and circumvention works fine in SP2).


Thanks,

-Lynda

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I am trying to open up a new port in the user's firewall during the
installation of our networking product.

Unfortunately in Windows XP (pre SP2), a scary dialog pops up that we're
trying to avoid.
XP SP2 does not show this warning.

The warning looks like this:
<user> is attempting to change or view this computer's Internet Connection
Protection settings. To give <user> permission to edit these settings for
as long as the program is open, click YES.

I tried:
INetSharingConfiguration::AddPortMapping() ==> Gives warning
INetFwOpenPorts->get_GloballyOpenPorts()->Add() ==> Only works in SP2

Note: I understand the purpose of the warning dialog, however we would like
to circumvent it anyway (and circumvention works fine in SP2).

Hi,

As far as I know, it is not possible to avoid this warning message
for pre-SP2 computers...