You guys have helped me before, now I ask for your help again. I use Windows Media Encoder to broadcast my scanner. I work for the Government and basically every port is blocked. So I cannot listen to my scanner at work. I remember someone suggested a port to use that was commonly open on most networks. I cant remember it though. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks a lot
J
I think it best, since you work for the Government that you discuss this with your System Administrator before doing anything, else you may violate some policy and find yourself out of work.
I shudder every time I see questions like this, and people give answers, not thinking of consequences. Business block ports all the time, for security purposes. By opening even 1 port, you give thousands of hackers a place to start hacking a system, and it may only be a matter of time before they can find an exploit and use it to their advantage. Port blocking is not designed to keep inside people from accessing the internet, but it is there to keep outsiders from accessing the internal network.
As a former Sysadmin, if I discovered something like this on my network I would be very cheesed off and would have no choice to report it to my manager, who would report to his manager, etc etc... Is it really worth your job to do something like this without consulting with your system administrator? Is listening to your scanner while at work, really that important? If you do it, then others may want the ability to do the same or something, opening a whole new mess for IT.
