Application Sharing soesnt work!!

I and my friends all had this problem for many months
with no answer from this forum.we finally decided to
replace XP firewall with a proper one, a free version of
Sygate home firewall,we now do file sharing at a rate And
are of 2 to 3 mb per min.Using ADSL 256. cheers Thomas
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(REPOST x2).

Any one solved this problem? there doesnt seem to be a
reply to this!

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I am teaching myself how to use Microsoft Messenger
(having
had all my experience in this arena using Netmeeting).
I
have a problem
with sharing applications. I've searched on this group
for previous
discussion of this. While I'm sure it surely been
discussed I can't spot
it. So at the risk of asking a FAQ:

Symptom: After requesting a "Start Application Sharing",
and the other
person accepts, the "Sharing Session" window appears. It
sticks on
"Waiting..." bottom message bar with "App Sharing"
and "Whiteboard"
greyed out. the "Close" icon is active and will work
when
pressed. But
the app sharing connection doesn't seem to get made.

Situation:
- both machines up-to-date XP Pro with Messenger
6.1.0155.
- both machines inside a Linksys router/firewall, but
communicating via
internet, i.e. logged in and using 2 passport id's.
- text chatting, file transfer, and sharing web cam
images work fine.
- no XP Firewall software running on either machine
- the receiver gets the invite to share app's, and
accepts. the
"waiting..." message appears there too.
- I can see outbound requests on router log to
207.46.108.24 to port
1863 but nothing back (even if rejected).
- one machine has Norton Antivirus, the other AVG anti-
virus. I've
turned off anti-virus on both machine for test, with no
affect on this
problem.

What to look for to find root-cause of this?


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