UPNP Installed by default in XP ?


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Before you all give me you're answer, can you check the following things:

a)have you disabled it yourself? if you have, ignore.

b)if you havn't, please check addremove windows components>networking, and tell me if the tick box is ticked.

c)then check the following:

1) cmd > dir /s upnp.dll . You should see 3 instances

2) netstat -a . you should see upnp bound to port 5000 to broadcast, and SSDP bound to 1900 for discovery of devices

3)check admin tools > services and see if upnp device host and SSDP are listed

My issue is this:

On all of our winXP machines, add remove windows components > networking shows upnp as NOT installed.

Yet it is, the services are both running and bound to respective ports.

A guy at work recons its not installed by default, for the sole reason that its not listed in add remove components, but doesnt appreciate the fact that the services are instaled, bound, and listening!

My thinking is... is this an oversight (bug) on MS's part, not showing upnp as a default install? If you do a dir /s *.* > before.txt , then install upnp (which incidently DOESNT want the XP cd) , then do dir /s *.* > after.txt and compair the files, there are virtualy no differences, apart from a few system logs.

Help me (obiwan) ! :)

TIA guys :p

Jon

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I have XP Pro installed on 3 workstations here (2 pc's and a laptop), and I have all of them fully patched. Yesterday I updated the firmware on my Linksys Cable/DSL router to make it UPnP enabled (firmware 1.43.2), and nothing happened on my local systems.... until I went and installed the UPnP component in the Networking section of Windows Components.

Voila, new network device detected on each system some configurability enabled through WinXP for my linksys.

I know this doesn't address your question regarding the appearance of UPnP in ipconfig, but I think this lends some insight as to whether it's truly running until it is installed.

Cheers,

John

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That does to an extent, did you need the winXP cd to install this?

When I tried on this machine, it didn't even ask for the cd.

Implies to me, if it does actually do anything, it simply changes a regestry setting or config file or sorts.

//Edit : If they were fully patched, I'm wondering what the MS patch for the upnp exploit actually did. If it simply disabled the SSDP service or something, that would explain why you're machines didnt pick it up.

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