

See this link if you want to read all details -. Which brings me to the disappearing ports in the program rules which I put on this forum and really never got "fixed" (didn't help with problem anyway). STEP 0: In your firewall: Allow the game to send. After every step you can check whether it already works - then you dont have to do the other steps.
So removed Program Rules port info and I have "Allow" for both Links game and GR instead of "Custom". (I might add it did launch). The solution is to configure your router to do port forwarding/port Response.With port forwarding setup set up correctly (done it many times in 2012) tried to go immediately to GR but wouldn't connect to other players - got rejected back. If anyone has any ideas please share - thanks.GameRanger: How to Fix Port-Restricted Cone NAT Router Huawei yU00 firmware. So it may not even be Norton IS doing it but not sure. I have d-link DIR 300 can u - D-Link DIR-300 Wireless Router question.Hit the start button, the host must click on Host game after the game launches, then they select LAN, and start the server (the host can change the server settings as they like), after the host is in the server, friends can join the game room through Gameranger, they must join for the server to appear, they click join, the game will start, head.
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Running NRT will clean up almost all files leftout during uninstallation. To avoid in any case a driver conflict or something, I asked you to uninstall NIS. But since you mentioned the rule will not survive a restart or long time, I felt something is going bad.Now, since disabling dont help you, the chances of Norton product blocking your path is very rare. If that is the problem I'm not sure I would know how to fix it anyway lol.)Added the files to the Auto-Protect & SONAR Exclusion listDisabling the entire protection components is similar to no protection. Even put it on DMZ and at the same time temporarily turned off the smart firewall but didn't help.(Could the anti-virus portion of Norton IS be causing a problem with this.
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Visit :Also make sure your ISP is not blocking the ports.Post back if you have any doubts / Update us regarding this." Do the 2 game exe's (gameranger and Links) require portforwarding or will setting to "allow" in program rules do the trick? "I am sorry, but I cannot help you on it with a definite answer.You may need to go to the GameRanger community to get help on that. Make sure all your game executables are allowed (not auto) in the program rules and port forwarding is set for the correct executale.I dont know if you have gone through these links, but if not, please go through them thoroughly. Router and windows) and run a port scan using tools like the (download the tool before uninstalling NIS).Then try adding portforwarding settings to router and rescan.Then if it works, reinstall NIS ( download NIS from or preactivated copy from manage.norton.com prior to uninstalling NIS ) and reconfigure the port forward settings into the firewall rules. May be that can have some role, which is why I refered to a free malware removal forum.Assuming you uninstalled NIS, cleared all port forwarding settings configured, disabled all firewall ( incl.
Thread remains open for over a month and if something unexpected happens, we can reopen it. "Okay, take your own time. Don't like to leave a thread hanging. :-))" I'll do the uninstall of Norton IS within a few days I hope so don't shut this thread down if I don't respond quickly. "So, your machine is most likely clean.
Lets hope it will be solved soon.Actually I meant set to "allow" for the exe's ( GameRanger and Links 2003) within Norton IS rather then the setting of "custom" when it's portforwarded. Then may be the client software has some issue.So, By reinstallation of NIS, we can make sure there is no problem in setting the firewall rules and the rules will stay and not vanish." Again Nikhil thanks for a terrific response. If my memory is right, You mentioned earlier that you could chat with online friends. Does this mean it should be working? "That means your connection via that port is working for TCP. That 192.168.1.70 is my static IP. Said this for the 4 ports forwarded: Connection received from PcWinTech.com to 192.168.1.70 port 2300 TCP ( 3:00:33 PM).

These same people are working on a new updated golf game - just an fyi.Ok Nikhil I'm back and hopefully did everything you asked. Links 2003 is really a nice PC golf game for those who like golf. Playing online kinda helps the withdrawal of not playing IRL. You're right I am 71 but I only play this kinda old golf game because I can't play now - used to play quite a lot in my younger days.
Not sure if it does this all the time though (port disappearing) when trying to join. Can't even do that though (join). I did notice that the ports disappeared right after trying to join a game (can't play but can spectate but a good way to test). So yes I did uninstall, did some of your suggested checks etc and then reinstalled.First want to mention something I forgot: I got to the point of checking the portforwarding 3-4 times a day and especially after an update, etc.
Then went in and added port forwardings to router but scan still came FAILED.Make sure all your game executables are allowed (not auto) in the program rules and port forwarding is set for the correct executable.Just called at&t uverse and they are NOT blockingI reinstalled anyway as didn't want to run computer unprotected (didn't want to use windows firewall not that familiar with it and I had other things to do on computer).So Nikhil hope you have enough info. This scan was done with dmz on the router (I guess that would be "disabling" router otherwise don't know how that is done - search came up nowhere for that router anyway) and windows firewall have bee always disabled and of course Norton is still uninstalled. Could that be a problem? (also said that DLL ships with windows). Kinda clueless on that dll even after doing a google. Before running port scan tried the Static IP check (not sure what they are checking concerning the static IP but got a msg about Missing system file scrrun.dll. Router and windows) and run a port scan using tools like the (link is external) (download the tool before uninstalling NIS).Did that and ran port scan.
Any recommendations what forum to go to (a good one) for windows system file issues etc? How far "off topic" are we allowed in this forum?Ok now first of all I want to make a confession that I should have mentioned earlier but maybe I didn't as it wasn't a Norton thing. Before responding to the above I think we established that Norton is not at fault and now we are getting into non-Norton issues.
