PC Anywhere hell no more

[Kristan]

After a lot of buggering about I've got PC Anywhere to work connect to a
host on the external side of ISA with SecureNAT clients and I thought I'd
share it with ppl. You need:

1 Protocol Definition for PC Anywhere as UDP, port 5632, send receive
and
1 Protocol Definition for PC Anywhere as TCP, port 5631, outbound

And it should work. Note this is for PC Anywhere 9.2, I've no idea about
other versions

The sequence of PCA events is:
PCA Client sends UDP packet to port 5632 (status port, checking to see what
the server is doing)
PCA Host replys with UDP packet with the status
If the status is OK, PCA Client opens a TCP connection to 5631 on the PCA
Host and everything works :-)

Packet sniffers rock!

K

[Bobo]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:54:39 -0000, "Kristan"
<kris...@dontspamme.centralsoftware.com> said:

>After a lot of buggering about I've got PC Anywhere to work connect to a
>host on the external side of ISA with SecureNAT clients and I thought I'd
>share it with ppl. You need:
>
>1 Protocol Definition for PC Anywhere as UDP, port 5632, send receive
>and
>1 Protocol Definition for PC Anywhere as TCP, port 5631, outbound
>
>And it should work. Note this is for PC Anywhere 9.2, I've no idea about
>other versions

Symantec has used those same ports since version 7.x (I think). Older
versions used different ports...

Notice that you can make those ports TCP only, but to get pcAnywhere to work,
there's a registry key you have to add called "TCPIPConnectIfUnknown" and set
to 0x1 (it's a reg_dword, in HKLM\software\symantec\...\pcanywhere\system)

You can also change the ports used, if you like. Must be changed on both
client and host.

[Paul Blanchard]

I have "buggered" around trying to get this to work also, but with no luck.
When you say protocol definition with send receive, do you mean packet
filter? I did not see a way to configure a protocol definition for both
directions.

Can you post more details? or send them to me.
Thanks,
Paul

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[Raymond Kuo]

Hi Paul and Kristan,

I am also trying to get a PC Anywhere client to work with a PC Anywhere Host
on the external side of ISA. I have set up the protocol definitions
according to the message below but it didn't work. Could you elaborate more
on the protocol definition for UDP? The TCP one is pretty straight forward
to set up.

Thanks,

Raymond

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