Enabling SnapDrive to communicate through the Windows Firewall

If the Windows Firewall is enabled on your host, you need to configure it to allow SnapDrive for Windows communications. The Windows Firewall is enabled by default in Windows Server 2008.

Steps

1. Add the DCOM registry key using regedt32.exe, as described in the Microsoft technical article, "Using Distributed COM with Firewalls," available from the Microsoft Developer Network library at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ under Win32 and COM Development > Technical Articles > Component Development > DCOM.
2. Navigate to Control Panel > Windows Firewall > Allow a program through Windows Firewall > Exceptions.
3. Select the COM+ Network Access checkbox.
4. If you will be using HTTP or HTTPS, select the World Wide Web Services (HTTP) or Secure World Wide Web Services (HTTPS) checkboxes.
5. Click Add program and browse to C:\Program Files\NetApp\SnapDrive\, or to wherever you installed SnapDrive if you did not use the default location.
6. Select SWSvc.exe and click Open, then click OK in the Add a Program window and in the Windows Firewall Settings window.
   Note: If Windows Firewall is enabled on your SnapDrive host and you want to use the -m option in the command-line interface to execute a command from a remote host, you must add sdcli to the allowed programs list for Windows Firewall. Follow the same procedure as for adding SWSvc.exe.

7. Reboot the system.