This article, List open ports and listening services, originally appeared on TechRepublic.com. One of the biggest headaches for network administrators is open ports on devices. Unless you manually ...

Though Firewalls are necessary when your computer is connected to the Internet, they can cause problems trying to get Internet aware programs working properly. For example, if you wanted to host a ...

A flaw in Windows Firewall may prevent users from seeing all the open network ports on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 computer. The flaw manifests itself in the way the security application ...

Your computer's firewall is a network security protocol that blocks unauthorized access from a local network or the Internet. The firewall allocates "ports" to programs that require network and ...

A Port basically serves as an interface between your computer and the internet or other computers in the network. Every communication over the web is exchanged using these ports, so they are an ...

I have a VM running Server 2008 R2 SP1 that is a network print server - TCP/IP print queues are installed on the server, and then shared out/published in AD. Client PC's connect to the shared printers ...