Disabling The Windows Firewall; Disabling The Windows Firewall Via The Traditional Control Panel - Basler ace CL Installation And Setup Manual

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4.3.2

Disabling the Windows Firewall

The Basler pylon software requires the Windows firewall to be disabled for all interfaces where
cameras are connected, with the exception indicated below.
You do not necessarily need to disable the Windows firewall.
If you leave the firewall enabled, the camera can be fully used with the exception
of the event reporting feature. You must only disable the firewall if you want to
preserve the possibility of receiving events from the camera.
However, you will have to respond to cumbersome messages when not disabling
the firewall: Whenever a program addresses a camera for the first time, a
Windows Security Alert will open asking you to allow incoming requests. In
these cases, click Cancel to block each message.
Basler recommends disabling the firewall for the connections with the cameras.
Microsoft provides several ways for configuring the Windows firewall:
The traditional control panel
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This is a relatively simple firewall configuration tool only allowing overall
disabling of the firewall.
The configuration via advanced security settings
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These settings are more for a technically-inclined user. The user interface
provides very granular firewall configuration options allowing disabling of the
firewall for selected connections.
The management interface can be found in the following way:
press the Windows + R keys > enter WF.msc.
The netsh command line utility
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4.3.2.1 Disabling the Windows Firewall via the Traditional Control
Panel
1. Open the Windows Firewall window:
Windows 7: Click Start > Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Firewall.
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Windows 8 or higher: Right-click on the bottom-left corner of the screen, then click
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Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Firewall.
2. In the left pane, click Turn Windows Firewall on or off.
3. In the Customize Settings window, click on Turn off Windows Firewall (not recommended)
for the network location section where you want to disable firewall protection.
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