Blocked conformance tests

[Francois Gouget]

When I run winetest on Windows XP I get some dialog boxes asking me:

Do you want to keep blocking this program?

According to the title bar, the impacted tests are:
   dplayx
   rpcrt4
   'Microsoft DirectPlay Helper'  ???
   ws2_32

My understanding is that it should only prevent the test from receiving 
network connections which I guess is not common. Does anyone know if 
this could cause any test failure currently?

How does XP determine whether to block the test or not?

Is the 'authorisation' based on the executable hash? If so there's no 
way to pre-authorise the tests for nightly tests.

Should the winetest mark the executable so it is not hampered by this 
check?

[Reece Dunn]

On 05/02/2008, Francois Gouget  wrote:
> When I run winetest on Windows XP I get some dialog boxes asking me:
>
> Do you want to keep blocking this program?

This is because the Windows firewall is blocking the application from
connecting to the internet and/or making TCP/IP calls.
> According to the title bar, the impacted tests are:
>    dplayx
>    rpcrt4
>    'Microsoft DirectPlay Helper'  ???
>    ws2_32
>
> My understanding is that it should only prevent the test from receiving
> network connections which I guess is not common. Does anyone know if
> this could cause any test failure currently?

If the firewall is blocking the network traffic, it should cause those
tests to fail.
> How does XP determine whether to block the test or not?
>
> Is the 'authorisation' based on the executable hash? If so there's no
> way to pre-authorise the tests for nightly tests.
>
> Should the winetest mark the executable so it is not hampered by this
> check?

I don't know if it is possible to automatically (or even globally)
allow these tests to run without disabling the firewall. This would
need further investigation.

Also, could you add a note about the presence of a firewall to the
ConformanceTests wiki page.

Thanks,
- Reece