Windows Live Messenger (arrghhh)

[Moody Marco]

This is driving me daft. WLM won't let me sign in when I'm using Vista. In
XP it's fine. Same login details, same net connection (I have a wireless
router), same version of WLM. After saying "Signing in" for maybe 60 secs,
I get error code: 81000306.

I've tried allowing it in Windows Firewall, and even turning the Firewall
off. No luck.

Cheers

 

[Jim]

This is driving me daft. WLM won't let me sign in when I'm using Vista. In
XP it's fine. Same login details, same net connection (I have a wireless
router), same version of WLM. After saying "Signing in" for maybe 60 secs,
I get error code: 81000306.

I've tried allowing it in Windows Firewall, and even turning the Firewall
off. No luck.

Cheers

Are you connected to a VPN?

With Vista x64 RTM, I can connect happily to Windows Live Messenger.
BUT if I then connect to a VPN, and then somehow get disconnected from
WLM, I cannot reconnect to WLM unless I disconnect the VPN first.

Jim

 

[Guest]

This is driving me daft. WLM won't let me sign in when I'm using Vista. In
XP it's fine. Same login details, same net connection (I have a wireless
router), same version of WLM. After saying "Signing in" for maybe 60 secs,
I get error code: 81000306.

I've tried allowing it in Windows Firewall, and even turning the Firewall
off. No luck.

Cheers

 

[Jeremy]

If you connect to a vpn your default gateway for the internet changes and Windows live messanger will have to reconnect.

You can however get around this. In the TCP/IP settings of the VPN there is any option that says "Use default gateway of remote VPN network."

Same in vista and xp. You might have had this checked in xp then when you changed over it wasn't set that way. This is the default for a new VPN but you do not want this. This makes you use the internet provider of the remote network. It's very slow this way. Unchecking this will send everything for the internet out your local internet provider. But still send the vpn traffic for the remote network to the vpn.

Right click the VPN connection and click properties, then Networking, then Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) then properties then advanced,then uncheck the button. Click ok alot of times and you are set. Connect the VPN and Messenger should stay connect then.

hope this helps



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[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Jeremy

You are apparently changing the subject of the message you are replying to
and not quoting that message. As a result, nobody can understand what you
are talking about???

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Microsoft MVP
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[Jane C]

Jeremy appears to be posting via http://www.eggheadcafe.com Hence no
quoted post and no idea which original post the answer pertains to. There
are quite a few such posts in the Vista newsgroups. eggheadcafe is not
alone in this respect either.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Thanks, Jane I see that now. I wish that these forum websites would follow
the newsgroup protocols when they port to the newsgroups. I know that many
of them do.