Re: Can't establish voice chat w/ friend behind ICF by Vishal
Vishal
Sat Jul 19 23:49:36 CDT 2003
Oh, Sorry. Missed that. Its surprising to hear that Windows Messenger can do
A/V fine but MSN Messenger cannot. (Personally, I have been using this
almost daily with my ICF turned on. Works like a charm). He can find out if
his ports are being opened or no by looking at properties of his network
adaptor | Advanced | ICF Settings. You will see MsnMsgr as an entry. if you
see so, it means that XP ICF ports have programmatically being opened.
Can your friend receive A/V calls from other buddies?
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-Vishal
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"sMh666" <satans_magic_hat@REMOVEhotmailTHIS.com> wrote in message
news:004001c34e26$1197f140$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>
> Hi Vishal!
>
> My friend is using a regular XP Home account with
> administrator privileges, not a limited account. As I
> stated in my initial post, the audio/video in his Windows
> Messenger works perfectly from behind the ICF, the a/v in
> his MSN Messenger 6 *does not*.
>
> The ports aren't being opened for some reason.
>
> sMh666
>
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi there!
> >
> >its not that MSN doesn't want to "play ball". XP ICF is
> a firewall that is
> >intended to protect the personal computer. When turned
> on, by default, all
> >bad traffic is opened. If you are an administrator on
> your PC (in XP Pro) or
> >a regular user (*not* the Limited User kind) on XP home
> edition, you would
> >be able to use MSN Messenger and make A/V calls. In this
> case, only the
> >necessary ports for A/V streaming are opened.
> >
> >Let us know if you are able to make calls now!
> >
> >-Vishal
> >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.-
> >
> >"sMh666" <satans_magic_hat@REMOVEhotmailTHIS.com> wrote
> in message
> >news:000b01c34e19$bf6ac3e0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >>
> >> Hello :)
> >>
> >> This is a strange one. I can't establish a voice chat
> >> with a friend that's using the XP ICF. I was under the
> >> impression that the ICF opens all the neccessary ports
> >> for MSN, but from some reason it seems to be failing to
> >> do this. We have absolutely no problems establishing a
> >> voice chat with Windows Messenger - everything works
> >> perfectly - but for some reason MSN doesn't want
> to "play
> >> ball". We're 100% sure the ICF's at fault here because
> >> when it's on we can't make a voice connection, when
> it's
> >> off MSN's voice chat works just fine. Also, out of all
> my
> >> contacts he's the only one using the XP ICF, everyone
> >> else uses different software firewalls and I don't have
> >> any problems with them :-/
> >>
> >> Anyone got any ideas as to what might be causing this
> >> problem?
> >>
> >> (We're both using the final version of MSN Messenger
> 6.)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >