Re: [MiKTeX] MiKTeX update and Windows firewall

[David C. <ca...@ma...>]

I have been running MiKTeX update in administrator mode on Windows XP.  
The update program will receive the list of servers, but if I select a 
server I receive the message

The operation could not be completed for the following reason:

failure when receiving data from peer

I do not receive the error message if I disable the Windows firewall. 
But I would prefer not to disable the firewall every time I try to 
update MiKTeX.

Aleks Kleyn wrote:
> You do not need to disable windows firewall. This is not good. The better
> approach to run update in administrator mode. You can do it by two ways. Or
> right click shortcut and select run as administrator or select shortcut
> property, go to compatibility tab and select run as administrator. This is
> more reliable way. I use miktex 2.5 under vista since august last year and
> do not have any problem.
>
> Aleks Kleyn
> http://www.geocities.com/aleks_kleyn
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mik...@li...
> [mailto:mik...@li...] On Behalf Of David
> Cardon
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:59 PM
> To: mik...@li...
> Subject: [MiKTeX] MiKTeX update and Windows firewall
>
> I have MiKTeX 2.5 installed on three different computers. A home 
> computer, and office computer, and a laptop. In all cases the MiKTeX 
> update wizard fails unless I temporarily disable the Windows firewall.  
> Does anyone know if there a fix for this?
>
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