Multiplicity Cannot Connect to One of My PC's with the Firewall Turned On

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I have Multiplicity Pro installed on 4 of my computers but one cannot connect if the firewall is on. All of the settings are the same (re firewall settings/rules/etc) and I've cleared the rules/re-installed several times. All computers run Win10. The only thing is that the problematic computer is just a little older than the rest but it still has similar specs.

Can anyone offer where I might troubleshoot to get MultPro to work and still enjoy the benefits of having the firewall enabled? Even google has not been too kind on this so far.

Thanks,

Eric

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Is the secondary computer accidentally set to public network vs Home / Work?

The Multiplicity rules only open the firewall when on a non public network for security reasons and it is very easy especially on Windows 10 upgrades to have it set to public in error.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm having the exact same problem ... but with just ONE of the "slaves"

I have de-installed and re-installed after deleting all of the Stardock and Multiplicity firewall rules and then reinstalling from scratch after a clean reboot.

The Stardock rules reappear after installation but NONE of the Multiplicity rules reappear on the inbound rulesets.

The only way I can get things to work is to disable the firewall for the Private Scope (which I don't like entirely).  I really don't want to manually enter the rules if I don't need to.

Any recommendations as to how I can specifically get those to get reinstantiated?  Also - running the exact same installer and ONE gives me "audio" options and the machine that I'm having problems with does not.

 

Thanks for any guidance.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Have exactly the same problem with one of my pc's. I managed to connect 4 windows 10 machines with no problem at all.

 The one with the problem is set to private, firewall to private,  I have logmein Hamachi to private and deactivated most of the times. I have hamachi to all the other too so it is not a problem. I can connect through the network properly in both directions.