MSN Messenger and PCAnywhere

[Rebecca]

We use PCAnywhere quite a bit and have had no problems
whatsoever with it. We just installed MSN Messenger 6.1
on our machines as a communication tool and now our
PCAnywhere connections continually drop. MSN is the only
factor here, as far as any changes to our computers go.
We do have a firewall and have ports 5631, 5632, and 22
open for PCAnywhere(had these opened forever). We didn't
open up any ports for MSN Messenger as it worked from the
first installation. We tried uninstalling MSN Messenger
but our connections still drop, however, other users were
still using it through the firewall. These are stable
machines that have had no changes at all in months so
we're almost certain it's MSN doing this. Sometimes it
drops after seconds and sometimes we can get a few
minutes out of it. Doing a file transfer in MSN
Messenger will drop the connection immediately. NOTE:
We are not trying to use MSN Messenger in a PCAnywhere
session, it is just installed on our PCAnywhere
machines. One more thing, when we connect to Win98
stations that have never had Messenger installed we still
get dropped, so it seems to be a
MSN/PCAnywhere/XP/Firewall thing. Any thoughts?

 

[PA Bear]

Try posting to news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.msn.messenger
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