Windows Firewall Killing Connection.

[Lorelei]

I've been having a heck of a time with this since I got invited to the beta. The PC's on my network are all on the same subnet, all talk to each other quite fine. With this in-game streaming however I was working for hours for it to stop denying connections from remote host. I decided to kill the Windows Firewall on my Win7 Host machine to see if it would connect and it did!

Now I'm left puzzled on what exception I need to put in there to fix this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Nail-O's]

You can disable the windows Lan firewall without an issue or add an exception into the rules if you really feel you must have the Windows Firewall.

[PorcupineGod]

Which version of the windows .NET framework are you running?

I had similar issues to what you are describing when I tried to stream content to an SMB share while I had Games for Windows Live installed on my gaming PC.

Try these: Update GFWL, Update .Net framework
If that doesn't solve your problem, try uninstalling GFWL to see if that helps (it was actually the Live Sign-in assistant that was messing things up for me).

I am having no problems with SMB shares with the newest GFWL, but I don't have the hardware to start streaming yet.

[Lorelei]

Originally posted by PorcupineGod:

Which version of the windows .NET framework are you running?

I had similar issues to what you are describing when I tried to stream content to an SMB share while I had Games for Windows Live installed on my gaming PC.

Try these: Update GFWL, Update .Net framework
If that doesn't solve your problem, try uninstalling GFWL to see if that helps (it was actually the Live Sign-in assistant that was messing things up for me).

I am having no problems with SMB shares with the newest GFWL, but I don't have the hardware to start streaming yet.

Thanks for the advice, unforunately no dice. I upgraded to the latest .NET framework and completely removed GFWL. I still have to turn off the windows firewall entirely to stream. I'm not sure what exception to put into the firewall to let the connection pass through.