Ports to allow in the firewall inbound exception list of Worry-Free Business Security (WFBS)

- Updated:
- 1 Feb 2021
- Product/Version:
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 10.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 8.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.5
- Platform:
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows 2000 Small Business Server
- Windows 2003 Home Server
- Windows 2003 Small Business Server
- Windows 2003 Standard Server Edition
- Windows 2008 Essential Business Server
- Windows 2008 Small Business Server
- Windows 7 32-bit
- Windows Vista 32-bit
- Windows XP Professional

Summary

You need to allow certain ports in the firewall inbound exception list if you are using a third-party firewall. Otherwise, you will experience issues such as:

The Client/Server Security Agent cannot get updates from the server.
You cannot access the WFBS console.
You cannot send emails.

Details

To avoid the aforementioned issues, include the following ports in the firewall exception list:

Component	Port List
Security Server Side	port 25 (outbound) - This is for SMTP connection. port 4343 (inbound) - This is for SSL connection to the WFBS console. Master_DomainPort (inbound) - can be found in ..PCCSRV\ofcscan.ini file on the Security Server
Exchange Server Side (MSA)	port 16372 (inbound) - This is for the Messaging Security Agent
Mac Clients (TMSM Agent)	port 61617 (inbound) - Security for Mac (TMSM) Agent Port
All Windows Clients and Servers	Client_LocalServer_Port (inbound) - can be found in ..PCCSRV\ofcscan.ini file on the Security Server proxy port (outbound) - if there is any

Rating:

Category:

Configure; Troubleshoot

Solution Id:

1038256

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