Whiteboard and Application Sharing activities do not work

I have been unable to get the whiteboard or application sharing to work. I
have tried across the WAN, locally on different LANs with a variety of users
etc. I have never seen this feature work in all the various versions of
messenger over the years. I also have not found anyone else who has been able
to make it work. Can someone in the messenger team confirm that this is a
tested feature? If not can you please remove it from the menu and list of
supported features?

Greetings,

Actually, the ports for these features in Netmeeting isn't random but in order to make them
work via Messenger, you need to have UPnP support (for it to obtain the external IP). The
UPnP issue is generally the major problem with connectivity.

These two features are also no longer supported as of Vista sadly.

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Associate Expert
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"Econeered By Design www.econeered.com" <Econeered By Design
> wrote in message
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>I have been able to get both the whiteboard and the application sharing to
> work in messenger 5.0 and windows live messenger 8.1. It is fantastic when it
> works, you can edit in real time documents, share control, everything they
> claim.
>
> one downside, only microsoft programs seem to be able to hand control over
> to the guest.
>
> Only other problem I find is that it hardly ever connects. As best I have
> been able to uncover it is because netmeeting uses random ports for each IM
> instance, most routers block this action and you need to allow listed ports.
> I have yet to get any direct answer from microsoft on how to correct this(if
> it is in fact the problem).
>
>
> "johnmarshall4" wrote:
>
>> I have been unable to get the whiteboard or application sharing to work. I
>> have tried across the WAN, locally on different LANs with a variety of users
>> etc. I have never seen this feature work in all the various versions of
>> messenger over the years. I also have not found anyone else who has been able
>> to make it work. Can someone in the messenger team confirm that this is a
>> tested feature? If not can you please remove it from the menu and list of
>> supported features?

Hi,

If there's two NATs going on here, it also won't work as UPnP doesn't work in double NAT'd
situations -- another reason for connectivity problems. For instance, a lot of DSL companies
ship their modems in NAT mode which people then put a router on top of, breaking UPnP.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
--

"Econeered By Design www.econeered.com"
< osoft.com> wrote in message
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> That helps. I cuurently have my DLS modem--->linksys router---->dlink wireless
>
> on the d-link there is UPnP support, but not on the linksys. I will bypass
> the linksys and see if that clears up the problem.
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Actually, the ports for these features in Netmeeting isn't random but in order to make
>> them
>> work via Messenger, you need to have UPnP support (for it to obtain the external IP). The
>> UPnP issue is generally the major problem with connectivity.
>>
>> These two features are also no longer supported as of Vista sadly.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> Associate Expert
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
>> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>> --
>>
>> "Econeered By Design www.econeered.com" <Econeered By Design
>> > wrote in message
>> news:76F4A84A-525D-4277-9290-...
>> >I have been able to get both the whiteboard and the application sharing to
>> > work in messenger 5.0 and windows live messenger 8.1. It is fantastic when it
>> > works, you can edit in real time documents, share control, everything they
>> > claim.
>> >
>> > one downside, only microsoft programs seem to be able to hand control over
>> > to the guest.
>> >
>> > Only other problem I find is that it hardly ever connects. As best I have
>> > been able to uncover it is because netmeeting uses random ports for each IM
>> > instance, most routers block this action and you need to allow listed ports.
>> > I have yet to get any direct answer from microsoft on how to correct this(if
>> > it is in fact the problem).
>> >
>> >
>> > "johnmarshall4" wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have been unable to get the whiteboard or application sharing to work. I
>> >> have tried across the WAN, locally on different LANs with a variety of users
>> >> etc. I have never seen this feature work in all the various versions of
>> >> messenger over the years. I also have not found anyone else who has been able
>> >> to make it work. Can someone in the messenger team confirm that this is a
>> >> tested feature? If not can you please remove it from the menu and list of
>> >> supported features?
>>
>>