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Win 2000 Advanced Server

hi,

I want to access webcam in yahoo messenger and it gives an error that I'm behind the firewall and webcam connection cannot be astabilished... I'm using MacAfee personal firewall with internet security, yahoo documentation says that I have to enable port 5100

thanks

davidlars99

ASKER

this is what yahoo says

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/chat/webcams/webcams-01.html

Lee W, MVP

Ok... I'm confused. What's the question?

davidlars99

ASKER

how can I let my friends to see me thru my webcam..? when I click on webcam icon window opens up and says I can't because of my firewall... :)

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Lee W, MVP

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davidlars99

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I can't... and I don't know why, I think I tryed everything but... $%^&#@%

Leandro Iacono

You have to let TCP and UDP Packets on port 5100 through.

McAfee firewall should also have an option to allow an application to have access to any port it needs. This would be a by application setting.

Check it out. You would enable Yahoo Messenger on this list, and it would have free access to any port/s it needs ...

Good luck.

davidlars99

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ok that's what I have and still no luck

http://www.frozendev.com/fw.jpg

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davidlars99

ASKER

thanks to everybody... I called McAfee tech support and they told me AV personal has some issues with win 2000 server family and didn't even bother to answer my question

Leandro Iacono

Sorry to hear that mate.

Perhaps you could use my personal faviourte firewall BlackICE which is rated as a very good firewall BTW ...

http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_dynamic.main?SP=1&PN=10&sid=26412

Check it out. It has a special version for NT based OS and for W9x OS's ...

Good luck.

davidlars99

ASKER

thanks for your efforts, unfortunatly nothing is going to help me unless I change my AV

Leandro Iacono

Sorry to hear that mate. Perhaps you could contact your AV company with your problem an issue a patch for you ...

Thanks for accepting my answer ...

Cheers.

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