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    Remote Assitance on WLM not working

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by MaXimus, Aug 22, 2009.

  1. MaXimus

    MaXimus Notebook Deity

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    Everytime I try to accept a remote assitance invitation on WLM with my brother either nothing happens or the moment I click accept I get a message saying thatI have accepted the invitation, then I instantly get another message saying thatI have cancelled the remote assitance invitation.....

    My bro is using Windows XP and I am using Windows 7 Ultimate RTM 64 bit
     
    MaXimus, Aug 22, 2009
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  2. makaveli72

    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    I haven't gotten that thing to work for sometime now. I would like to believe it's an issue with M$ although I haven't ruled out a firewall being an issue on either end. But it used to work so seamlessly before though...so idk!

    Nevertheless I would suggest TeamViewer for Remote Assistance.

    PS: It's not an issue with Win. 7. I've had those same issues you describe with XP to XP and XP to Vista.
     
    makaveli72, Aug 23, 2009
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  3. BinkNR

    BinkNR Knock off all that evil

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    Neat tool. Thanks.
     
    BinkNR, Aug 23, 2009
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  4. MaXimus

    MaXimus Notebook Deity

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    thanks ill try team viewer
     
    MaXimus, Aug 23, 2009
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  5. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    Take a look at CrossLoop (free) also.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Aug 23, 2009
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    kegobeer 1 hr late but moving fast

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    Do you both have the same version of Windows Live Messenger installed? Do you both have Microsoft Live accounts?
     
    kegobeer, Aug 23, 2009
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    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

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    Teamviewer is the way to go IMO.
     
    surfasb, Aug 24, 2009
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  8. MaXimus

    MaXimus Notebook Deity

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    well im not sure about that........maybe that could've made a diff.? but i thought that remote assistance as an OS thing. WLM is just a method of initiation
     
    MaXimus, Aug 25, 2009
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    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    teamviewer all the way, espencially if you have some headless servers as well, and can create a account on which you can store, and share your systems.


    and yes, remote assistance is an os thing, but wlm creates the connection path. remote assistance can't do that by itself (it only does direct connection to an ip/computer name), so the whole from-your-local-net-to-the-isp-to-the-other-local-net translation has to come from wlm, and maybe there are differences in the versions causing the conflict.
     
    davepermen, Aug 25, 2009
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  10. MaXimus

    MaXimus Notebook Deity

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    I see, will I never knew there were other programs for doing this! Ill try them the next time teh need arises.
     
    MaXimus, Aug 25, 2009
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  11. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    oh there are a lot, for all kind of purposes.. :)

    there are such that can install themselves over the internal network onto a machine to take control of it, there are such like teamviewer that allow anyone to connect from anywhere to anywhere, both just somehow having web access. there are such for having an own user session, like remote desktop by default, or such that let you control the other desktop, like vnc.

    there are tools to control your phone from your pc, like my mobiler, so i can write sms from the pc keyboard. there are tools to remote control your pc from the phone.

    tons of tools for all sorts of purposes :)


    edit: and then there are remote bootup, shutdown, backing up, and even full power-coord-cutters-over-network (in case you really have to hard reset a server 200km from your current place at midnight, that thing is a godsend :))
     
    davepermen, Aug 25, 2009
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