I just disabled a firewall on a machine in one of our domains, and tested it, to no avail.
Could you be more specific? If that is the case that is a major security hole and privacy infringement, here, and it would be of great help to know!

You are saying that, with default windows configuration on one machine in a domain (and firewall disabled /open on interested ports, of course), Domain Admin with full rights should be able to simply run that (which calls the unsolicited help connection) and access the destination machine in "view" mode?

My test took place to/from machines updated to SP2 + following fixes.

Thanks in advace.



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I vaguely recall having used NetMeeting once in similar situation.

Remote Assistance does come with file transfer / chat utility. Netmeeting can also be used as part of the assistance "package". I don't remember cfg details at that regard, however, since I never needed webcam or other Netmeeting features when remote controlling a desktop.