How to ensure Port is open - tcp

How do I check if a port is opened in windows. And can it be seen what is accessing it or what has accessed it over the last while?

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can we give specific IP address and port number to launch javaFx applicaton

My desktop is configured with 2 NIC (2 IP addresses), and when I launched the javaFx application, it is opened with one specific IP address among 2 available IP addresses.
Could you please help me, how the javaFx picks the IP address and port number when we launch the application?
Can we give specific IP address and port number to launch javaFx application ?
Thanks in advance, any kind of help is appreciated.
Note: In my case, main java process is running on a linux server, the javaFx standalone app is launched through a windows desktop. Here one desktop IP is unreachable from the server and when i try to run code from the server, it is using the unreachable IP to launch it in desktop. So, we are unable to make any RMI calls from the server to desktop as it is unreachable. hence we are failing to send data to the app. We don't have option to make it reachable from the server. so i am looking to use other reachable IP address to launch the app

Accessing a local website from another computer inside the local network in IIS 10

On my computer I have deployed my web site on IIS. If I access this website locally with :8080 works perfect, but when I try to access this site from another machine or my Android phone I get 'The site can't be reached. my_ip_address took too long to respond ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT –' this error.
I have tried solutions from this question, but nothing worked for me. Need some help!
There are few factors which can affect the accessibility of the site hosted on your local computer:
Is the client machine (including your phone) in the same network as the Server (In this case your site)
Is the firewall configured to allow connections on port 8080
Have you tried accessing the server using the IP Address. For e.g. http://192.168.0.1:port
Steps to isolate
Ping the server Ip from the client machine and see if it is able to connect to it.
ping 192.168.0.1
If the above fails, then I would assume that you are not on the same network. If it succeeds then check if the port is open.
You can also use nmap to see whether the ports are open or not
nmap -p 8080 kaushal.com
If the above fails, then open the port in your Firewall configuration and then try again.
Try this and share the results.

How to determine source of mysterious server name on my network

Over the last few days I have noticed a mysterious (unknown to me) server hostname that shows up on both Ubuntu's Nautilus Network section as well as Windows File Manager network group. The hostname does not show in the list of clients on my router. If I double click the hostname icon to try to connect to it I get a connection refused error. The hostname's appearance is random.
I have non-factory admin and wireless passwords set on my router as well as MAC filtering. Router firewall is on and no unneeded service ports are opened (NFS, etc.).
How can I determine the source of this unknown hostname and how can I close down my network in case this is really someone that has managed to break into my network? Also, if I have explicitly listed the MAC addresses of all my devices how could a non-listed device be able to connect?
Thank you for any comments you can provide.
Resolved; see previous comment on NetBios over TCP/IP.

Windows Phone 8 emulator can't connect to the internet

I have Windows 8 installed inside of an emulator, and the new WP8 SDK installed on it. My problem is that the emulator can't connect to the internet. I don't have any proxy, and even disabled the firewall. It still doesn't seem to work though. When I look at the Network Connections sections I can see the new connections the hyper-v manager created for the emulator, and also the automatic bridge created, but even there the network status is "No Internet Connection".
Are there some properties I can manually change in Hyper-V or for the network to make everything work?
Update: I've done everything suggested including create my own switch and delete all others. It still doesn't work however. It doesn't work on cable and not on wifi. Maybe I'm missing something with how to set this up?
Also the WP emulator keeps offering me to connect to the internet every time. It always erases all of the definitions I've set up, replacing it with it's own definitions.
I think I've finally found the answer, but you're probably not going to like it. It would appear that the phone emulator requires you to have a second network adapter to dedicate to this purpose. Personally, I run Windows 8 in VMWare, and so a second network adapter is free for me.
Anyway, after you get the second network adapter that you can dedicate for the phone emulator(must have internet)
Start from scratch. Go to the Hyper-V manager and delete the emulator along with all of the virtual switches
Start the emulator from Visual Studio; this will recreate it with all default settings(select yes you want to configure it to connect to the internet)
Shut it down
Now, go back to the Hyper-V manager
Delete the snapshot that was just created for the emulator. This will prevent your changes from disappearing
Find the virtual switch for your second network adapter in the Network Adapter settings(under control panel)
Disable TCP/IPv4, 6 and all other services. This prevents your host machine from trying to use the connection. While you're there, get the MAC(Physical) address of this adapter
Find the virtual-switch for your second network adapter under the Hyper-V settings for the emulator
Change the MAC type to static and paste in the MAC address of the adapter
Enable MAC spoofing (not sure if required, but just in case)
Then, find your virtual switch under "Virtual Switch Manager".
Ensure "Allow management operating system to share this network adapter" is unchecked and that all extensions are disabled
Click OK and then start the emulator from Visual Studio!
Basically, it appears that for some odd reason it won't properly work unless the phone has the same MAC address as the network adapter. However, we can't just set it to use the same MAC address because address conflicts are very very bad. So, we need a second adapter that we can dedicate to the Phone emulator. The reason we disable TCP/IP on this adapter is so our host machine doesn't use it and cause these conflicts.
Other things to try:
The emulator keeps randomly breaking for me. I'll list a few other things I messed with this last time that got it to work(not sure if related, so only try these if the steps above aren't working
"Reordering" of network adapters for the emulator so that the external virtual switch is at the top (make sure to copy over the MAC address for the internal adapter)
Removing unrelated network adapters
Restarting your machine after recongiguring virtual switches
Praying to your local Microsoft evangilist
Seriously. Everytime I stop phone work for a while and come back, the emulator is always magically broken without me changing anything. No idea how to get it to work "permanently".
I had the same issue as well. However as someone else pointed out on the official forums it didn't work if you had a static IP for your PC set up in your router. Removing it and let the DHCP assign my PC an IP solved the issue for me.
Source
Here's what worked for me:
Go into the internal network connection created by hyper-v in network connections on the host computer. Go to TCP/IP V4 and go to advanced. Change the metric from automatic to 10.
Go to the external network connection, do the same but set the metric to 1.
Volia, internet in the emulator.
I tried following steps , Not sure if it will work for you
1> Delete All emulators in Hyper-v
2> Remove all virtual switches from virtual switch manager
3> Go to Network connections in control panel and manually disable (right click and click disable) all the connection except the one which provides internet.
4> Start the emulator from Visual studio
Something else that seems to also cause an issue is Fiddler.
I had Fiddler open and running (as I was monitoring other HTTP requests), and it was stopping the emulator from connecting.
As soon as I closed Fiddler, the emulator starting connecting perfectly.
Start Hyper-V Manager
Open Virtual Switch Manager
Remove the Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch from the list and apply changes
After installing Windows Phone Emulator on my Yoga laptop, I immediately had the following problems:
emulator apps cannot reach the internet
host computer internet connection is terribly slow and almost unusable
I was discouraged and thought I would have to do some drastic and desperate acts to fix things, but got lucky with the following steps which completely solved my problems (for now). The steps are verbose (intended for the readers' benefit), but are actually very simple in practice.
....0: Unplugged ethernet cable (to remove it from the equation) but stayed connected to WiFi. Problems still remain but at least there is less complexity now.
....1: In Control Panel / Network Connections / Change Adapter Settings, deleted Network Bridge (required for Step 2 to work).
....2: Opened Hyper-V Manager, right-clicked on the emulator VM item and selected Virtual Switch Manager. Selected "Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch" and changed the radio button from Internal to External (this was only possible after deleting the Network Bridge (Step 1)).
At this point, the emulator can now connect to the internet (and Control Panel shows WPEIS finally 'has internet access'); however deployment of WP build binary from VS to emulator fails - it just hangs when I try to build-and-deploy from Visual Studio (so a new problem has surfaced (temporarily)).
....3: Returned to HyperV Manager, went back to Emulator VM's Virtual Switch Manager and reverted Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch from External back to Internal.
I can now successfully build-and-deploy WP build from Visual Studio to emulator. And emulator retains its networking ability. Also the host machine's network connection also returned to healthy.
I hope this helps someone. Good luck!
I went through many of the suggested solutions, also with no luck. What finally worked for me was to fix a vmware warning about guest OS trying to set promiscuous mode for ethernet adapter (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/287).
Try this solution, it works for me (no need of DHCP)
Step 1 - using Hyper-V start the server, once started u can see the two new network adapters added in the (network sharing) page.
Step 2 - go to your visual studio IDE where your application runs, using Emulator run your application, once started try to open IE, it will not connect to internet.
Step 3 - now again come back to network sharing page right click on external adapter which was created newly select properties, hit on sharing tab, now check the two options to have tick mark if not tick that two options and click on OK.
Step 4 - internal adapter which was created newly will be changing the domain name from Unidentified network to your shared Domain name, once changed try to access the IE again in emulator which runs already. now i hope the internet connection works.
Thanks,
Baskar
After spending about 3 days on this i finally got it working. (on Windows 8 using WiFi)
Start Fresh, Remove HyperV, Restart, Install Hyper V, Restart
Open your VS solution and run the emulator.
When prompted for letting the emulator access the internet say yes.
Let the emulator and your project fully load
Shut down the emulator and VS
Open Network and Sharing Centre
Click change Adapter Settings (on the left hand side)
You should have some new adapter created by HyperV, they should be called "vEthernet(...)"
The ones you are interested in are the vEthernet( Virtual Switch) and vEthernet (Internal Ethernet Port Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch)
Open the properties on your vEthernet( Virtual Switch) and navigate to the sharing tab.
Choose Allow other Network users to connect and choose the vEthernet (Internal Ethernet Port Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch) as the adapter
Ok the changes, and then open the properties on vEthernet (Internal Ethernet Port Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch)
Disable Internet Protocol Version 6 and double click on Internet Protocol Version 4
Use the following IP address: 169.254.169.177 Subnet mask:255.255.0.0
Click advanced, under the IP settings tab, assign an interface metric: 1
Open VS and re run your project under and emulator, wait a few minutes for it to load.
Try and open IE within the emulator and confirm you have internet access.
Good luck
After 3 days we have finally solved it. We had to make ip address dynamic. After making it dynamic emulator could reach internet. We didn't have to change anything else.
Good article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wsdevsol/archive/2013/10/01/why-can-t-the-windows-phone-emulator-go-online.aspx
I had DHCP reservation on my router, like #robertftw said. I configured a static IP for vEthernet (Internal Ethernet Port Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch) adapter and everything works.
Disabling the Wifi, and Virtual Wifi inside "Network Connections" worked for me.
My Windows Phone emulator had been assigned an IP address by DHCP on a different Subnet to the one I am using.
Manually assigning an IP address on the same subnet as my PC to the vEthernet port created by Hyper-V resolved this issue.

Using Xming X Window Server over a VPN

I have the Xming X Window Server installed on a laptop running Windows XP to connect to some UNIX development servers.
It works fine when I connect directly to the company network in the office. However, it does not work when I connect to the network remotely over a VPN.
When I start Xming when connected remotely none of my terminal Windows are displayed.
I think it may have something to do with the DISPLAY environment variable not being set correctly to the IP address of the laptop when it is connected.
I've noticed that when I do an ipconfig whilst connected remotely that my laptop has two IP addresses, the one assigned to it from the company network and the local IP address I've set up for it on my "local network" from my modem/router.
Are there some configuration changes I need to make in Xming to support its use through the VPN?
Chances are it's either X authentication, the X server binding to an interface, or your DISPLAY variable. I don't use Xming myself but there are some general phenomenon to check for. One test you can do to manually verify the DISPLAY variable is correct is:
Start your VPN. Run ipconfig to be sure you have the two IP addresses you mentioned (your local IP and your VPN IP).
Start Xming. Run 'netstat -n' to see how it's binding to the interface. You should see something that either says localIP:6000 or VPNIP:6000. It may not be 6000 but chances are it will be something like that. If there's no VPNIP:6000 it may be binding only to your localIP or even 127.0.0.1. That will probably not work over the VPN. Check if there are some Xming settings to make it bind to other or all interfaces.
If you see VPNIP:6000 or something similar, take note of what it says and remote shell into your UNIX host (hopefully something like ssh, if not whatever you have to get a text terminal).
On the UNIX terminal type 'echo $DISPLAY'. If there is nothing displayed try 'export DISPLAY=VPNIP:0.0' where VPNIP is your VPN IP address and 0.0 is the port you saw in step 3 minus 6000 with .0 at the end (i.e. 6000 = 0.0, 6010 = 10.0).
On the UNIX host run something like 'xclock' or 'xterm' to see if it runs. The error message should be informative. It will tell you that it either couldn't connect to the host (a connectivity problem) or authentication failed (you'll need to coordinate Xauth on your host and local machine or Xhosts on your local machine).
Opening Xhosts (with + for all hosts or something similar) isn't too bad if you have a locally protected network and you're going over a VPN. Hopefully this will get you started tracking down the problem. Another option that is often useful as it works over a VPN or simple ssh connectivity is ssh tunneling or X11 forwarding over ssh. This simulates connectivity to the X server on your local box by redirecting a port on your UNIX host to the local port on your X server box. Your display will typically be something like localhost:10.0 for the local 6010 port.
X can be ornery to set up but it usually works great once you get the hang of it.
Thanks for the help #Stephen and #Greg Castle, using it I've managed to resolve my problem.
To provide a basic guide for others (from scratch):
Using Xwindows on a Windows PC to connect to a UNIX server over a VPN
What you need to start with:
The Putty Telnet/SSH client, download putty.exe (for free) from:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
The Xming X server, download Xming (for free) from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156984
What to do:
Install both of the above on your Windows PC
From the Windows start menu select: Programs -> Xming -> Xming
Run the Putty.exe program in the location you downloaded it to
In the PuTTY configuration screen do the following:
Set the IP address to be the IP address of your UNIX server
Select the SSH Protocol radio-button
Click the SSH : Tunnels category in the left hand pane of the configuration screen
Click the Enable X11 forwarding check-box
Click the Open button
Logon as usual to your UNIX server
Check the directory containing the X windows utilities are in your path, e.g. /usr/X/bin on Solaris
Run your X Windows commands in your putty window and they will spawn new windows on your desktop
I got Xming and PuTTY working with Cisco VPN by replacing the PuTTY configuration in Connection > SSH > X11 > X display location, localhost:0.0, with VPNIP:0.0. VPNIP can be seen in the VPN statistics client address information by left-clicking on the VPN client lock icon and choose Statistics....
I didn't muck with the DISPLAY environment variable on the remote host. But, like others, I modified sshd_config on the remote host, adding these lines:
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes
AddressFamily inet
I have got same issue with Xming and Putty on a Windows 10 machine and found the solution here. I have overcome the problem just adding Tunnels to the session in PuTTY. But first you need to check;
sshd_config under /etc/ssh (in rhel7).
Enable X11 forwarding at left navigation pane Connections > SSH > X11
iptables under /etc/sysconfig/ (in rhel7). If ports are blocked and you have permission, open the ports for 6000. I have added below line before first reject line to open ports from 6000 to 6003. It may be more specific in your case.
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -m multiport --dports 5901:5903,6000:6003 -j ACCEPT
Then;
Go to Connections > SSH > Tunnels in PuTTY and add a tunnel with Source Port=6000, Destination=127.0.0.1:6000 and check Remote radio button. Then click the Add button.
After your SSH connection established, set your DISPLAY variable manually with the command below:
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
More Information;
If you set DISPLAY variable as 127.0.0.1:1.0, it will communicate over 6001 port . In this case, you need to add another tunnel for port number 6001.
I had nothing but problems with Xming. When I could get it to work it was extremely slow (this is over a VPN). IMO X is not designed to run over slow connections its too chatty. And by slow connection I mean anything less then a LAN connection.
My solution was to use x11vnc. It lets you access your existing X11 session through VNC. I just ssh into my box through the VPN and launch:
$ x11vnc -display :0
That way I can access everything I had opened during the day. Then when I don't I just exit (Ctrl-C) in the terminal to close x11vnc.
Haven't have the exact problem, but I think you need to look at the xhost and make sure that the vpn remote is allowed to send data to the x server.
This link might help:
http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/trouble.php
You may have better luck doing X11 Forwarding through SSH rather than fiddling with your DISPLAY variable directly. X11 Forwarding with SSH is secure and uses the existing SSH connection to tunnel, so working through a VPN should be no problem.
Fortunately this is fairly straightforward with Xming. If you open your connection from within Xming (e.g. the plink option) I believe it sets up X11 forwarding by default. If you connect using another SSH client (e.g. PuTTY) then you simply need to enable X11 forwarding (e.g. 'ssh -X user#host'). In PuTTY the option is under Connection -> SSH -> X11 -> click on 'Enable X11 Forwarding'.
Make sure Xming is running in the background on your laptop and do the standard X test, 'xclock'. If you get a message like 'X connection to localhost:19.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).' then Xming is most likely not running.
Also, make sure you're not explicitly setting your DISPLAY variable in any startup scripts; SSH will set up an alias (something like localhost:10 or in the example above localhost:19) for the X11 tunnel and automatically set DISPLAY to that value. Overwriting DISPLAY will obviously mean you will no longer be pointing to the correct X11 tunnel. The flip side of this is that other terminals that don't have SSH X11 Forwarding set can use the same DISPLAY value and take advantage of the tunnel.
I tend to prefer the PuTTY option but several of my coworkers use plink from within Xming.
putty + XMing - I had to set the DISPLAY environment variable manually to get things running (alongside with checking "Enable X11 forwarding" in putty - Connection/SSH/X11)
export DISPLAY=0:10.0
(it was set to "localhost:10.0", which did not work)
You have to add the Linux machine's DNS name(s) and IP address to the C:\Program Files\xming\X0.hosts file. File should contain:
LinuxBox.mydomain.com
LinuxBox
192.168.1.25
This is the right answer: https://www.slackwiki.com/X_Windows:_Remote_X_to_Windows_with_Xming

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