Allow access to Minecraft

This article applies to organisations with a 'Hybrid' setup (both On-Premise Appliance and Cloud), as well as On-Premise only and Cloud only setups.

 

You can allow users access to play Minecraft without allowing access to all online games or computer games.

Create a Web Filter Policy for the Minecraft Category, with Allow as the Action.

To allow users to be able to connect to external servers when using Smoothwall On-Premise Appliance as your Firewall create a Firewall Rule:

  1. In the Services section, select Create.
    • Set Type to New service.
    • Enter a Name.
    • For Protocol, select TCP.
    • For Port, enter 25565.
    • (Optional) Add a comment.
    • Select Add item.
  2. Add another item to Services, with the Protocol as UDP and the Port as 19132.
  3. If using iOS devices, add another item to Services, with the Protocol as TCP and the Port as a range 16384-16472.
  4. Set the Action to Accept.
  5. Select Save changes.