So i was wondering if its possible to ask the user programmatically to add my games port 4121 (for example)
to the windows firewall exception list.
I know this is possible with NetFwTypeLib (COM library)
but i am not sure how to import COM libraries to my unity project so yea.
also this is what i am trying to achieve: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dxtecharts/images/firewalls1.jpg
Ask? Sure. Write code that pops up the firewall exclusion message you linked? Waste of time. This should happen automatically anyway but last time I saw this message, that was … Windows 7 probably.
It isn’t enough to open the port on the Windows firewall because practically no user has his machine connected directly to the Internet. There’s almost always a router in-between which performs NAT where port forwarding has to be set up or else there will be no incoming traffic to this machine on your game’s port to begin with. The router may also have a firewall enabled.
You can provide support material for the user to perform the port forwarding and the firewall exclusion but you can expect most not to follow through, and those who do will have trouble with it and likely going to ask you for support.
to the admin reading this please remove this thread i was quite slow back then (and i still am but now i am less slow so yea)
