On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:54:07PM +0000, Paul wrote:
Hi Folks
I've been trying to get a distributed application working over a network. Most of the inter-process communications are handled by a low level server using the TCP/IP stack. For remote processes, communications use port 5005. Not being particularly clued up on low level networking, how do I enable this port ?
Assuming the port isn't firewalled, then you shouldn't need to do anything - just run the application.
To check if the application is listening on port 5000, you can go to another machine on your net and type
telnet host_address 5000 [where host_address is the name of the server]
If it connects, then the app is listening and you are through.
If you get "connection refused", then you probably don't have a firewall problem but the app might not be listening.
If you just get silence, then the port might be firewalled.
Just throw an extra problem in, is there likely to be any problems communicating with a Windows box on this port ?
Probably. But no worse than doing anything else related to windows.