I was just wondering, how do you open ports? Where do you go, and what steps do you need to take to do so? I don't know how to open ports. You'll need to tell me step by step what do to, ok. I'm not telling you to do this.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;842242 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308127 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307554 your question is not specific to what firewall you want to configure, while the methods with different firewalls would be similar each router firewall or software firewall would need specific and different instructions these three articles above 2 are for icf the pre sp2 xp firewall and one is for post sp2 xp windows firewall,just given as general examples you would have to specify the firewall or firewalls you need to open the ports in to get specific instructions.