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My dad has a firewall set up and I can't upload ANYTHING. I've never worked with firewalls so I don't know much about them except what they do. I need to find a way to disable and enable it with out him knowing, so I don't wanna just turn it off if I Dont' now how to turn it back on It's McAfee Personal Firewall. Any suggestions are welcomed.

Ok new update it's not the firewall from McAfee I think it's the router.... I need to open port 6112 I Think it is. I have no idea how to get to it and yea any information is well needed.

Sorry bud,

I don't think anyone here is able to give you the password to your fathers firewall or router. And that is the only way to open and/or enable ports.

what kind of router is it?

It's not that it's password protected it's a Linksys but yea. I disabled the McAfee but that wasn't it. I think it's definately on the router.

what you need to find out is how to access the router to set it up and open the ports

for instance, mine is a crappy belkin. I gotta open up explorer and type 192.168.2.1 and it takes me to the set up page

there is usually no username or password needed to get it. If it asks for one, just hit enter without giving one

in there, there should be all sorts of options. like setting up the ports so incomming connections go to your internal IP

okay if its linksys router just like mine type into ie browser 192.168.1.1, if the pswd has not been changed from the default, its admin, the username leave it blank. In your case the best thing to do is port forwarding or dmz.

YOU DO NOT need to open any ports on a Linksys router to do regular uploads via FTP. I use Linksys routers all the time.

I have no idea what 6112 is, but it's certainly not FTP. I'd think twice about doing any file sharing without your Dad's permission.

You also DO NOT want to put your father's computer on DMZ as it will be COMPLETELY EXPOSED to the internet, defeating the firewall feature of the router.

i'll throw in my .02....

i would vote for just asking him to do it himself. would you want your father snooping around your pc and changing settings for himself without telling you or asking? a firewall by default will not block uploads like that...so he may be blocking that sort of stuff intentionally. if you have a valid reason to upload via ftp then just ask him and he shouldn't have a problem with it.

better safe than sorry...

Originally posted by FlyingPenguin
YOU DO NOT need to open any ports on a Linksys router to do regular uploads via FTP. I use Linksys routers all the time.

I have no idea what 6112 is, but it's certainly not FTP. I'd think twice about doing any file sharing without your Dad's permission.

You also DO NOT want to put your father's computer on DMZ as it will be COMPLETELY EXPOSED to the internet, defeating the firewall feature of the router.

DITTO

Originally posted by demonmonkey1234
It's not that it's password protected it's a Linksys but yea. I disabled the McAfee but that wasn't it. I think it's definately on the router.

is it a linksys befsr11?

me

Ditto again on the above. No firewall/RIAB comes with any settings that will block uploads out of the box.