Jonathan
Mon Sep 13 16:21:58 CDT 2004
Greetings Laurent,
That's very odd; 1723 should only be used for VPN access and really shouldn't affect
Messenger.
Thanks for the feedback however, I'll see if I can reproduce this problem here.
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"Laurent" <ldm@nomail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9563A4C7FDB68ldmhec@207.46.248.16...
> Laurent <ldm@nomail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9563A209BCA8Dldmhec@207.46.248.16 in
> microsoft.public.msn.messenger
>
>> Laurent <ldm@nomail.com> wrote in
>> news:Xns9563A01864314ldmhec@207.46.248.16 in
>> microsoft.public.msn.messenger
>>
>>> I have this issue on two computers at home. Both have Win XP SP2. The
>>> first one is an older installation and MSN Messenger worked fine last
>>> Friday. The other one is a new, freshly installed, WinXP SP2
>>>
>>> Since yesterday, both can't login with MSN Messenger 6.2. It
>>> establishes the contact, display the contact list, but then freeze.
>>> Error reports are sent to MS, but I can't use Messenger.
>>>
>>> Nothing has changed on the older computer. I tried many things on the
>>> new computer, including uninstall/reinstall, reinstall Windows from
>>> scracth and change parameters of router's inbuilt firewall, but
>>> nothing worked. The MSN Messenger web page says newtork status is
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> Any idea ?
>>>
>>
>> Okay. I found the source of the problem. I *did* in fact changed
>> something lately, which is a forward through port 1723 in my router. I
>> need remote desktop capabilities. So, I disabled the feature and MSN
>> now works. But I solved a problem by creating another one. I need BOTH
>> MSN Mesenger and Remote Desktop... How this possible ? I have the
>> latest firmware for my router (DI-704UP).
>>
>
> Hello. Me again. I keep on answering myself :-) I found the solution and
> believe it is worth posting for the community.
>
> I changed the forward setting in my router to allow BOTH TCP and UDP at
> port 1723. The router only forwards to one computer, but both computers can
> now run MSN Messenger fine.
>
> End of story.