Question

I am creating a wpf application where it is going to be installed on several computers in the same network. The application is supposed to talk to other applications therefore I am implementing a WCF service in my application. Everything works great with no firewall. As a result I am just missing some code in order to add an exception to the firewall.

To add an exception to the firewall for a program I execute the following code in cmd (or in a process in c#)

netsh firewall add allowedprogram “C:\users..etc\myProgram.exe” MyProgram ENABLE

the problem is that I don’t know what exe is hosting my service!!! I will like to find that out so that I can add the firewall exception.

Answer 1

I guess that my only option will be to open that port in the firewall. I think that is not secure at all. the way to do it is:

Remove it first in order to avoid having duplicates:

netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name=”Description Goes Here” dir=in protocol=TCP localport=8732

then add it:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”Description Goes Here” dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=8732

now everyone will be able to use that port to communicate…