Windows live messenger

[sggaunt]

We have tried to setup M$ Messenger (Windows live messenger) on one of our networked machines. But it is unable to make a connection.
It seems to be able to make a connection to our Proxy/NAT server (Winroute) but then fails to make an external connection.

Diagnostics reports a 'Key Ports' problem.

All our servers are up and runnning email and Internet access is fine.



Steve [The sane]: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.

 

[Grenage]

http://www.isaserver.org/articles/MSN-ISAserver.html

Does this offer any useful advice?

Carlsberg don't run I.T departments, but if they did they'd probably be more fun.

 

[sggaunt]

Cheers Grenage

Not sure. I will have a good look and see if there are any clues.
My feeling is that it is something to do with Winroute but this is the basic NAT/Proxy/mail server router, and not the firewall, it does have some packet filtering and your link does mention that I will have a closer look.

BTW The machine running MSN has only the XP firewall, and we tried turning this off, made no difference.


Steve [The sane]: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.

 

[WyldeCarde]

Sounds like your proxy isn't forwarding the ports you need, are they restricted on the proxy side?

How are you configuring Messenger? Is it using HTTP proxy (recommended) or other (not so much)?

 

[Jiminald]

if you have a proxy server, you may need to tell msn to use IE's settings or manually put the information in yourself.

in tools > options > connection click advanced connection and see what it says.
Try testing TCP first, if not put your proxy settings in the HTTP Proxy and try the HTTP Test.

I'm on an Proxied NAT at the moment, we just port forward port 80 to the router.

Hope this helps