Prior to installing Norton, I had uninstalled "Windows Meeting Space" as it had been a long time since I had needed it's predecessor, Netmeeting.
I've recently been told of a couple things that might make it useful, and wanted to try it out. However, once I reinstalled it and tried to laucnh, I got a message that
"Windows cannot start WIndows Meeting Space
On the General tab in Windows Firewall, clear the "Block all incomming connections" check box."
How should I configure the firewall to get this part of Windows to work, or how can I get the "auto-config' to work?
Also, why can't I get the "run as administrator" to actually do so and let me manage the firewall without switching to an administartor account? I do NOT want to let anybody without an admin password to be able to tinker with the nonadmin settings, but I learned in school to use the runas command when you just need to do a quick change requiring elevated privliges, and it's a pain to switch to an admin just to do a quick tweak to the firewall rule or whatever when I could just right-click on Norton in the start menu and "run as administrator".
I have constantly run Liveupdate for both progam and definitions, but i think I"m still using NIS 2009.
Back to the meeting space. I at first thought it was because I did it with a nonadmin account, but even loggin in as an admin and reinstalling Meeting Space still kept the auto-config from working.
I could set the firewall ACLs to allow any TCP/UDP connections on any port to/from this program, but my security training says to only program least privilege. As I'm planning on experimenting a bit with this app, I'm going to need all possible features turned on. Yeah, I know, but it is my personal home computer, not a company's, so if I want to treat it as a toy and play, I can get away with it.