My PC has Windows XP default firewall running, hence RemoteView can connect to Watcher, or Watchers broadcasting is blocked, what do I do?
You can still use Windows XP’s firewall, but make sure the TCP/IP port that Watcher listens on (for RemoteView connection) is open. The default port is 5003. Please go to your network properties dialog, go to “Advanced” tab, if your “internet connection firewall” is enabled, you can see a “settings” button. Click on that, you will see a “advanced settings” dialog, under “services” tab, click on add, a “service settings” dialog will pop up, enter any description, and enter the IP address of your PC, put both “external port number” and “internal port number” as 5003, make sure TCP is selected. Click on “ok” after all the fields have been entered, and click on “ok” again. For broadcasting (to local web server), the default port that Watcher listens on is 80, so please follow the same above instructions to open port 80.
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