Re: zone alarm & instant messanger

From: Daniel Crichton (danielc@helio.co.uk)
Date: 05/09/02 

From: "Daniel Crichton" <danielc@helio.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 14:38:02 +0100

"kirk iverson" <kirkiver@netzero.net> wrote in message
news:ZJaC8.81476$vX.4356@rwcrnsc53...
> i am running win xp, and trying to use the video and voice feature of
> microsoft IM. i can't seam to make connections while running zone alarm, i
> figure that i need to open up a port(s) but i have looked all over and
can't
> seam to find any info on which ports are used for IM when doing
> voice/video... the text part of IM works fine, only have problems when
> trying to use voice/video feature

It might not be ZA - the voice and video parts of MSN Messenger only work if
you're not using NAT (ie. a different IP address on your machine that is
actually visible from the Internet). Have you tried disabling ZA and see if
it works? If it does then you should be able to tell ZA to allow MSN to act
as server, that should let the voice and video work as it requires that UDP
and TCP connections are made to MSN rather than passing all data out via a
central server like the text part is.

Dan

Relevant Pages

  • Re: HOW TO: Enable or Disable Internet Connection Firewall in Windows XP ?
    ... control panel from the default category view to the old classic view. ... "Network and Internet Connections". ... You Cannot Create a Network Connection After You Restore Windows XP ... > If you watch the video on this on "setting the firewall", ...
    (microsoft.public.security)
  • Re: MS MCE Network Issue
    ... >>> One thing I quickly discovered is that one video stream, maybe two, ... >> often kept video streams coming in from different news stations on ... > Likely depends on the quality. ... blame for multiple systems/devices that might be causing the connections to ...
    (alt.sys.pc-clone.dell)
  • HOW TO: Enable or Disable Internet Connection Firewall in Windows XP ?
    ... Why is there no choice for "newtwork and internet ... If you watch the video on this on "setting the firewall", ... Im looking and I dont see ... There's "network connections" and "internet options". ...
    (microsoft.public.security)
  • Re: limiting player connections message ?
    ... stills, narration, music, titles, video & stills from other folks etc ... So my question is,when showing this video afterward, if I limit ... "The maximum number of connections have been reached, ... Windows Media Services but there is not indication of this, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.encoder)
  • Re: Ileana Cotrubas
    ... eg, - Moffo, ... Sills, and lately Netrebko, - yet when seeing and hearing her, both ... live and on video, she seems "at one with" whatever the role, with ... I never liked her much at the MET - the voice seemed smallish, ...
    (rec.music.opera)