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Re: cygwin/x and zonealarm firewall
- From: James Merritt <jamesem_99 at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:53:52 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: cygwin/x and zonealarm firewall
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi,
I am not sure why ZoneAlarm 5 does not work for soem
people. I am running Cygwin under WindowsXP Pro with
Zon Alarm 5 (the free version) and Cygwin/X works
fine. When ZoneAlarm notified me that Cygwin was
trying to act as a server I told ZoneAlarm to allow it
and to remember that setting.
I don't know if this is the same thing as you guys are
discussing but Cygwin works for me with ZoneAlarm 5.
Maybe I am missing something. I don't claim to be an
expert and I am not a poweruser of Cygwin, so I may
not be aware of potential problems ZoneAlarm 5 is
causing. I use Cygwin to play with gcc and some other
basic things, so take that for what it is worth.
Take care and have a great day!!
James E. Merritt
--- Arturus Magi <sailorleo@hotpop.com> wrote:
> BJ Garman wrote:
> > I saw on the website that some users had problems
> getting cygwin/x to
> > run properly with ZoneAlarm firewall by zonelabs
> to work. I myself
> > played around with it and found that it can be
> made to work easily by
> > setting a few simple things within your zonealarm
> firewall. Cygwin/x
> > must be able to act as a server and must be able
> to use its default ip
> > addressing.
>
> It's not that simple. ZoneAlarm implements it's
> security by replacing
> the Winsock with it's own code. In some cases this
> irreparably breaks
> programs that depend on the Winsock, like Cygwin/X.
>
> ZoneAlarm 4.5 works fine, but ZoneAlarm 5 doesn't,
> as far as being able
> to run X. Other programs work with ZA 5 but not
> 4.5. Some simply don't
> work with either.
>
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