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More info?)
Thanks Al, before I got your last feedback I discovered UPnP was not running
correctly on my Router so after some re-installation (3 hours worth of
jigery-pokery) I now get my public IP on the invites.
Thanks for the help
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Kahuna
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"Sooner Al [MVP]" <SoonerAl@somewhere.net.invalid> wrote in message
news:66BF42B1-EF9A-4FEE-BAAB-9B9581BD0512@microsoft.com...
> Just one last thought...Have you seen these articles that deal with RA &
> UPnP?
>
>
http://tinyurl.com/d9w6c
>
> They may, or may not, be helpful...
>
> --
> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>
> Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual
> benefit of all of us...
>
>
>
> "Sooner Al" wrote:
>
>> Reply to message from "Kahuna" <none@gonewest.com> (Sun, 22 May 2005
>> 04:05:16) about "Re:
>> Remote Assist Sends Internal Not External IP?":
>>
>> > Thanks Al, that's what I am doing at the moment - but I'd like to
>> figure out how to get
>> > my fixed IP in there automatically so I don't need to doctor it up
>> each time.
>>
>> > Cheers
>>
>> > --
>> > Kahuna
>> > ------------
>> > "Sooner Al" <SoonerAl@somewhere.net. invalid> wrote in message news:
>> D2810845-933E-
>> > 4855-A2EC- F72FF2B41FDC@microsoft.com...
>> >> Two things to/try...
>>
>> >> * Create an invitation file with an expiration period of the maximum
>> 99 days. See this
>> >> page for help...
>>
>> >> http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/
>> RemoteAssistance/RemoteAssistance. html
>>
>> >> * Next modify the invitation file and use a fully qualified domain
>> name versus your
>> >> public IP. You should be able to use a free one from a service like
>> No- IP.com for
>> >> example.
>>
>> >> * Send the modified invitation file to your client.
>>
>> >> --
>> >> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>>
>> >> Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the
>> mutual benefit of
>> >> all of us...
>>
>>
>>
>> >> "Kahuna" wrote:
>>
>> >>> Hi Folks
>>
>> >>> I am using RA to allow clients to view our demo across the web. I
>> retain control of
>> >>> my desktop and all works nicely - to a degree!
>>
>> >>> The invitations I send are incorporating my Local Network IP rather
>> than my
>> >>> Public IP as set in my NAT Router. This can be fixed using notepad
>> to doctor-up the
>> >>> invite XML, but its a pain getting clients to play with that invite
>> or even doing it
>> >>> myself and re- sending.
>>
>> >>> Is there a way to set the invite process to get my Public IP?
>>
>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Kahuna
>> >>> ------------
>>
>> I supose you could write a script to do a replacement of the incorrect
>> IP. That's pretty
>> easy to do in a Linux/UNIX shell, so I guess its fairly easy to do on a
>> Windows box. I
>> will leave that to the scripting experts...
>>
>> Good luck...
>>
>> ------
>> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
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