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Norton Personal Firewall and the outbound ports for a Citrix connection

Asked by: Modell

I have limited time to learn a program for my office so I have installed the trial program on my home computer.  However, every time I try to access the program i get the message : ICA file not found. This is Citrix and Terminal services (I hope I said that correctly). My firewall is Norton Personal Firewall and I was told to open ports UDP 1604 and TCP 1494 but when I tried, it seems I failed.

Also, even when Norton firewall is disabled I get the same message.

Can anyone walk me through the opening of these ports?  Thank you for your time.

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Answers

 

by: tim_holmanPosted on 2004-03-24 at 08:07:32ID: 10668932

List of Ports Used by Terminal Server.  You're missing TCP:3389 ?

Clients                   Static ports
--------                    ------------

RDP Client (Microsoft)      TCP:3389 (Pre Beta2:1503)
ActiveX Client (TSAC)       TCP:80, 3389
ICA Client (Citrix)         TCP:1494
                        
NOTE: Terminal Server uses port 3389.

 

by: ModellPosted on 2004-03-24 at 19:22:04ID: 10673977

umm, Tim?  I don't have a clue what you are talking about.  I need someone to help walk me through opening ports in Norton Personal Firewall without expecting me to fully understand what I'm doing.  Thanks anyway.

 

by: tim_holmanPosted on 2004-03-27 at 09:54:05ID: 10695390

Those are the ports you need to open on the firewall for Citrix to work fully.  However, I looked up the 'ICA file not found' message on the Citrix support site, and it is fixable... take a look here, apologies for bombarding you in geek language... ;)

http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?categoryID=135&entryID=1825

 

by: ModellPosted on 2004-03-27 at 17:07:52ID: 10696748

ummmmmm, Tim, I found that web page some time ago; its instrucitons assume you have the ports open. My request is for someone to help me, step by step, open the ports using Norton Personal Firewall.  According to the host, I only need the two ports listed, udp 1604 and tcp 1494 open. But they won't help me do it ... 'third party programs etc.'. Thanks again

 

by: tim_holmanPosted on 2004-04-10 at 04:53:45ID: 10796547

Sorry for the delay in response, but do you still need help with this ?

 

by: ModellPosted on 2004-04-10 at 08:02:12ID: 10797004

The needed help has changed a little.  With dogged determination I have managed to open the two ports required by Citrix.  But I am very uneasy about it because I don't know how to tell Norton that there is only one company/person/computer permitted to use those ports.  Is this something you can help me with? Thanks.

 

by: slowmoePosted on 2004-04-10 at 16:09:59ID: 10798738

It's a thre step process if you don't know the computer you want to give access to:

1) Modify the rule you created to open the two ports by going to the "Tracking" tab and ticking the box labeled "Create an event log".

2) Check the "Event log" to see the "Remote computer" that tried using these two ports.

3) Modify the same rule again by going to the "Computers" tab and adding the "Remote computer" you found in step two to the "Only the computers and sites listed below" list.

 

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No comment has been added to this question in more than 21 days, so it is now classified as abandoned..
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