Problems with ICF and VOI.

I'm running XP Pro with ICF and Norton Personal Firewall enabled. Until
recently everything was working fine with this same setup, but after
swapping my hard drive and reinstalling everything, I can no longer use the
voice conversation feature while ICF is enabled. With only NPF enabled it
works fine. I've opened the following TCP ports in ICF: 1863, 5060, 1503,
6891-6900. 3389 is already opened for Remote Desktop. Any ideas would be
appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I forgot to mention I'm using WM 5.0.


"BarCom" <PetitMal@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:%23W0SdcrQEHA.3140@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I'm running XP Pro with ICF and Norton Personal Firewall enabled. Until
> recently everything was working fine with this same setup, but after
> swapping my hard drive and reinstalling everything, I can no longer use
the
> voice conversation feature while ICF is enabled. With only NPF enabled it
> works fine. I've opened the following TCP ports in ICF: 1863, 5060,
1503,
> 6891-6900. 3389 is already opened for Remote Desktop. Any ideas would be
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>

Greetings,

Voice conversations use ports 5004 through 65535 UDP and Messenger *should* automatically
open the necessary ports in the ICF on its own. Unfortunately in some circumstances this
functionality doesn't work, there are some solutions that have managed to get it working
again in the past, but they haven't had a big success rate in the past.

Since you already do have the NPF, I would simply suggest turning off the ICF for the time
being and just leaving the NPF to be your firewall.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"BarCom" <PetitMal@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:%23W0SdcrQEHA.3140@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I'm running XP Pro with ICF and Norton Personal Firewall enabled. Until
> recently everything was working fine with this same setup, but after
> swapping my hard drive and reinstalling everything, I can no longer use the
> voice conversation feature while ICF is enabled. With only NPF enabled it
> works fine. I've opened the following TCP ports in ICF: 1863, 5060, 1503,
> 6891-6900. 3389 is already opened for Remote Desktop. Any ideas would be
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>

Thanks for the reply. Generally I just turn off the ICF for voice
conversations, but I like to keep it on so NPF doesn't bombard me with
alerts from port scans. If I just use NPF I have to turn the alerts off,
and I like to be aware of what is accessing the net. Do you think I might
be able to restore functionality by installing SP2b, or is this more likely
a configuration issue that would still remain or a bad install?


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@jonathankay.com> wrote in message
news:OaQZE%230QEHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Greetings,
>
> Voice conversations use ports 5004 through 65535 UDP and Messenger
*should* automatically
> open the necessary ports in the ICF on its own. Unfortunately in some
circumstances this
> functionality doesn't work, there are some solutions that have managed to
get it working
> again in the past, but they haven't had a big success rate in the past.
>
> Since you already do have the NPF, I would simply suggest turning off the
ICF for the time
> being and just leaving the NPF to be your firewall.
> ____________________________________________
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
> "BarCom" <PetitMal@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:%23W0SdcrQEHA.3140@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I'm running XP Pro with ICF and Norton Personal Firewall enabled. Until
> > recently everything was working fine with this same setup, but after
> > swapping my hard drive and reinstalling everything, I can no longer use
the
> > voice conversation feature while ICF is enabled. With only NPF enabled
it
> > works fine. I've opened the following TCP ports in ICF: 1863, 5060,
1503,
> > 6891-6900. 3389 is already opened for Remote Desktop. Any ideas would
be
> > appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
>
>

Hi BarCom,

To be honest, installing the beta will probably solve the problem, but after uninstalling it,
the problem will probably come back (although more than likely by that time the final release
will be out). It's worth a try!
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

"BarCom" <PetitMal@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:eYqXaB6QEHA.644@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for the reply. Generally I just turn off the ICF for voice
> conversations, but I like to keep it on so NPF doesn't bombard me with
> alerts from port scans. If I just use NPF I have to turn the alerts off,
> and I like to be aware of what is accessing the net. Do you think I might
> be able to restore functionality by installing SP2b, or is this more likely
> a configuration issue that would still remain or a bad install?
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@jonathankay.com> wrote in message
> news:OaQZE%230QEHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Voice conversations use ports 5004 through 65535 UDP and Messenger
> *should* automatically
>> open the necessary ports in the ICF on its own. Unfortunately in some
> circumstances this
>> functionality doesn't work, there are some solutions that have managed to
> get it working
>> again in the past, but they haven't had a big success rate in the past.
>>
>> Since you already do have the NPF, I would simply suggest turning off the
> ICF for the time
>> being and just leaving the NPF to be your firewall.
>> ____________________________________________
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
>> Associate Expert
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>>
>> "BarCom" <PetitMal@nowhere.net> wrote in message
>> news:%23W0SdcrQEHA.3140@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> > I'm running XP Pro with ICF and Norton Personal Firewall enabled. Until
>> > recently everything was working fine with this same setup, but after
>> > swapping my hard drive and reinstalling everything, I can no longer use
> the
>> > voice conversation feature while ICF is enabled. With only NPF enabled
> it
>> > works fine. I've opened the following TCP ports in ICF: 1863, 5060,
> 1503,
>> > 6891-6900. 3389 is already opened for Remote Desktop. Any ideas would
> be
>> > appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

Thanks. I'll take another look at it and see if I want to test drive it or
just wait for the release.


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@jonathankay.com> wrote in message
news:uMWC%23FDREHA.3476@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi BarCom,
>
> To be honest, installing the beta will probably solve the problem, but
after uninstalling it,
> the problem will probably come back (although more than likely by that
time the final release
> will be out). It's worth a try!
> ____________________________________________
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>
> "BarCom" <PetitMal@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:eYqXaB6QEHA.644@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Thanks for the reply. Generally I just turn off the ICF for voice
> > conversations, but I like to keep it on so NPF doesn't bombard me with
> > alerts from port scans. If I just use NPF I have to turn the alerts
off,
> > and I like to be aware of what is accessing the net. Do you think I
might
> > be able to restore functionality by installing SP2b, or is this more
likely
> > a configuration issue that would still remain or a bad install?
> >
> >
> > "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@jonathankay.com> wrote in message
> > news:OaQZE%230QEHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> Voice conversations use ports 5004 through 65535 UDP and Messenger
> > *should* automatically
> >> open the necessary ports in the ICF on its own. Unfortunately in some
> > circumstances this
> >> functionality doesn't work, there are some solutions that have managed
to
> > get it working
> >> again in the past, but they haven't had a big success rate in the past.
> >>
> >> Since you already do have the NPF, I would simply suggest turning off
the
> > ICF for the time
> >> being and just leaving the NPF to be your firewall.
> >> ____________________________________________
> >> Jonathan Kay
> >> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
> >> Associate Expert
> >> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> >> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> >>
> >> "BarCom" <PetitMal@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> >> news:%23W0SdcrQEHA.3140@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >> > I'm running XP Pro with ICF and Norton Personal Firewall enabled.
Until
> >> > recently everything was working fine with this same setup, but after
> >> > swapping my hard drive and reinstalling everything, I can no longer
use
> > the
> >> > voice conversation feature while ICF is enabled. With only NPF
enabled
> > it
> >> > works fine. I've opened the following TCP ports in ICF: 1863, 5060,
> > 1503,
> >> > 6891-6900. 3389 is already opened for Remote Desktop. Any ideas
would
> > be
> >> > appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>