After completing steps of securing your firewall setup described here and here, you may ask yourself: Well, what should I do if I want to use some of my programs/services running on my rig via network? Good candidates are web interface of your miner, open hardware monitor status page and ¹⁾

The answer is simple: allow inbound connections for any required port. These steps are almost the same as described in block ports tutorial, the only difference is that at step 9 you have to click Allow the connection.

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Look at the nice graph of hits (network probes) per day for port 3389 at this page. It's a good idea to change default port number 3389 used my MS Terminal Service to say 33421 or 23786 or whatever port number you want in the range 1024-65534. We'll use regedit for doing this.