exclamation mark on WLM 8.1 connection status

[TMC]

Hello,
I am running XP with windows firewall, I can sign in to WLM with no problem
but cannot contact any contacts or send emails. It say's there offline and
tells them I am offline. I can receive emails and there is no error code, but
when I go to connections in wlm there is an exclamation mark on the
connection status computer side. I changed the settings through my firewall,
explorer and wlm with no luck. I know it is something simple, I had the same
problem years ago when I first ran messenger. Thank you for any help

 

[David Wilkinson]

Hello,
I am running XP with windows firewall, I can sign in to WLM with no problem
but cannot contact any contacts or send emails. It say's there offline and
tells them I am offline. I can receive emails and there is no error code, but
when I go to connections in wlm there is an exclamation mark on the
connection status computer side. I changed the settings through my firewall,
explorer and wlm with no luck. I know it is something simple, I had the same
problem years ago when I first ran messenger. Thank you for any help

TMC:

Wrong group. Try an XP group, e.g.

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general