Re: How To Use NetMeeting With Private IPs?
- From: Joe Crown <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:19:41 -0700
Remote desktop & remote assistance in Windows XP will do this & you can send a request for this through MSN messenger. I'm not sure of all the features, but still the problem with NetMeeting & routers is that you can't use it & have security. That is why I recommended MSN messenger as you didn't state why you were trying to use NetMeeting. In this case I'd either use the software that was built into the OS or look for other software.
FinkPloyd wrote:
Hmmm... I also used MSN Messenger at HP. Will it permit me to view his screen? Control his computer?
"Joe Crown" wrote:
Stop using NetMeeting. Since you are both behind routers I strongly recommend using MSN messenger instead as Microsoft doesn't seem to care about that ancient software anymore & they have added features to MSN messenger where you can do most if not everything you could do in NetMeeting.
The problem with NetMeeting is that it uses randomly selected ports & thus you have to disable all firewalls & forward almost every port to your computer. Of course this is a bad idea for security reasons.
FinkPloyd wrote:I've had prior user experience with NetMeeting while working at HP. In each case, though, every user had a HP-centric DHCP address of 15.x.x.x.
At home I run W2K SP4 with a Direcway satellite linkup and a Linksys wireless router. My 89-year-old stepfather runs XP Home Edition with DSL (but no additional router). Both machines are behind hardware firewalls (internal to the Direcway/Linksys/DSL boxes) and are using local 192.168.x.x addresses issued via DHCP. In the case of the XP machine, we may also have its Windows Firewall with which to contend.
How can I advise him to configure his NetMeeting, and how do I configure mine, so that I might be able to provide tech support for him? Will this entail a VPN and, if so, how do I set this up having had no prior experience in doing so?
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