Different instances of W/w Msger running with same credentials??

[Rohini Prinja]

Hi

I have two machines, I m running the Windows Messenger on both of these with
same Username/Password at the same time.

Is it a feature?? coz in general the any messenger like yahoo will log you
off from the previous instance if you try to login on another machine.

Even if this is the case, if someone pings me, to which instance will the
message get delivered??

thanks!

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Rohini,

This actually isn't possible (at least the way you've described it), the .NET Messenger
Service allows only login instance per user (so you'd get signed off the other "client" if
you were to login again).

Are you sure you're using the same Passport and they're both actually "logged in" and
working?

____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.


"Rohini Prinja" <Rohini > wrote in message
...
> Hi
>
> I have two machines, I m running the Windows Messenger on both of these with
> same Username/Password at the same time.
>
> Is it a feature?? coz in general the any messenger like yahoo will log you
> off from the previous instance if you try to login on another machine.
>
> Even if this is the case, if someone pings me, to which instance will the
> message get delivered??
>
> thanks!

[Rohini Prinja]

Hi Jonathan

Yes! this is precisely whatz happening! I checked it again. I do not get
logged off on first machine when I login to another machine.

Well I am using the "SIP communication service" on both of these machines.
So, by any chance is it related to "SIP location service" in which you can
actually register multiple destinations for a request? I was going through
the RFC of SIP and found that SIP location service can be changed by the
admin. So does w/w messenger has a seprate service like that?

Thanks!!
~Rohini

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings Rohini,
>
> This actually isn't possible (at least the way you've described it), the .NET Messenger
> Service allows only login instance per user (so you'd get signed off the other "client" if
> you were to login again).
>
> Are you sure you're using the same Passport and they're both actually "logged in" and
> working?
>
> ____________________________________________
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>
>
> "Rohini Prinja" <Rohini > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hi
> >
> > I have two machines, I m running the Windows Messenger on both of these with
> > same Username/Password at the same time.
> >
> > Is it a feature?? coz in general the any messenger like yahoo will log you
> > off from the previous instance if you try to login on another machine.
> >
> > Even if this is the case, if someone pings me, to which instance will the
> > message get delivered??
> >
> > thanks!
>
>
>