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Comment from Rick on 2008-04-11

2008-04-11T17:27:07Z

Well that’s the problem I think you are also going to run into, I have tried to re-gain ownership of my network and run into a brick wall on doing so. It’s become increasing difficult to regain access to it. Trust me I’ve tried several times and I have sent an email to Hamachi Support group asking for them to help. So far I’ve gotten nothing out of them except silence.

This is the part that’s really confusing to me when I try to regain access to it gives me this error message. "That it does not own or participate in any networks” What exactly does this mean? Can I not be in my own room when I’m trying to transfer it? I’m confused about this part.

And yes I can rejoin the group but the problem is I have no control over it anymore. If I need to remove some older clients I can’t. And after a while with other joining the room it can lock you down because you can only have a certain amount of clients in a room at one time. This is where the problem lies. I have no control over my own room so I can remove older clients that are no longer valid.

Thanks Leo, I would really like to see how you get yours resolved if you do. I’ll be in checking in periodically to see if anything changes.

You can reach me at this email addy if you figure it out.

Thanks!

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-04-11

2008-04-11T15:55:56Z

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Assuming I understand your question, no, I've not run into
what you are describing.

Two things to note: the "nickname" of a machine in Hamachi
doesn't need to be the machine name. Thus if you lose a
machine's Hamachi IP address (typically by rebuilding and
reinstalling Hamachi from scratch) you can simply give it
another nickname, re-join your network(s) and you're done.
This does happen to me from time to time and it's never
slowed me down.

The only time things get interesting is if you lose
"ownership" of a network. I'm about to run into that
situation as I rebuild my primary desktop. As I understand
it in a case like this Hamachi's customer support can
transfer ownership to another of your machines - but I've
not yet gone down this path.

Leo

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Comment from Rick on 2008-04-10

2008-04-10T21:42:31Z

Leo,

I’m having a bit of trouble with the way Hamachi does some of their settings. For instance I had to redo my hard drive because the hard drive crashed. I lost control of my Hamachi server and can’t remove unwanted or older clients that joined that network. I know what the master passwords are and have tried many times to move my old account to the new server. I would like to regain control of an older server name that I like but that’s become impossible with the way they do business. It’s very irritating that they don’t go back or even have control of their own server so they that a user can put in a request to dump that server name and recreate it. If you don’t have the original config files you’re pretty much screwed. Back to the issues of putting in the passwords I have tried but the system tells me Error: Failed. Please check that target account is not premium, that it does not own or participate in any networks, and that source account is not using trial premium license.

This is just the most irritating system I have ever had to try and use to get my site back. I’m a network Administrator. I’ve been doing system administration for a long time. If I ran my network and poorly as they seem to I would be out of a job. So I guess what I’m asking is have you ever run Int this type of instance and if so how did you fix it?

Thanks!

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-03-07

2008-03-07T18:28:12Z

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Depending on how it's been set up it *could* have all the
same vulnerabilities as having a stranger's machine plugged
into your home network. Recommend you "Block vulnerable
Windows services" in Hamachi and make sure your Windows
firewall is on.

Leo

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Comment from Tony Weeks on 2008-03-05

2008-03-05T22:22:38Z

My son has set up one of these Hamachi things on my computer. I am conserned that the host of this system will be able to pry into my files as the VPN is “like having two computers joined”
Please advise on the vunerability between computers once you have allowed the software to be downloaded for running gaming

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Comment from CRB on 2008-02-22

2008-02-22T15:08:33Z

Very helpful programme if your router is the proper one.

I also want to use remote desktop (not only locally but also from the internet) and like steve and you say no need for port forwarding? What the biep? I have to forward that port otherwise I cannot connect from outside to my machine, also for FTP I have to forward a port to a local machine.

It's also no nonsense no config nothing? Why do I then have to have extensive router experience to work with this programme?

I was hoping that with this programme I didn't have to open any ports on my router anymore, guess again.

90, 95, 5 or 10 % ppl not telling they have a problem is not the same as the .5 percent that is telling you!

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Comment from JayGreece on 2007-11-19

2007-11-19T21:06:25Z

by the way you can use Remote Desktop Connection using the ip provided from Hamachi

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Comment from JayGreece on 2007-11-19

2007-11-19T21:03:56Z

Hey Leo and Guys..I tried using Hamachi with my brother in South Africa and me in Greece. check this out..both PC's need a password in order to connect to each other otherwise you'll get a bunch of errors arising for no reason. this worked for me so try it out. put a password to your account eg: you log in as johnsmith without a password..go to user accounts in control panel and add it.

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Comment from bellyman on 2007-11-16

2007-11-16T17:19:07Z

Hi!
When i try to connect to Hamachi, it says "The Mediation server has denied your login try".

Pleas help me!

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Comment from ardi on 2007-08-21

2007-08-22T07:23:53Z

i have a hamachi and i dont know to use it. My game is company of heoros and i will it play online and i dont have online players in my hamachi how can add some!!!!!????please help me!!!

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-02-22

2007-02-22T19:02:58Z

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I'm not sure what to tell you. If the Hamachi network is established
correctly, meaning that the machines can see each other in the hamachi
status window, and they all have green connection indicators, and they
can ping each other (right click on the machine in hamachi and select
ping), then I don't know why any additional configuration would be
needed. I've done this repeatedly, traversing routers at both ends
without ever touching the router configuration.

It might be worth your visiting the hamachi support forums.

Leo
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Comment from ballstein on 2007-02-22

2007-02-22T12:15:15Z

Update: Have just discovered that by setting custom TCP/UDP NAT traversal ports in Hamachi preferences, and opening those ports on the router for the LAN PC, I can remote desktop to the PC over the internet even though I've removed the RDP 3389 mapping from router. This means to have multiple PCs behind the router all accessible from the internet with RDP, all they need is their own unique TCP/UDP port in the Hamachi preferences and the respective port mapping on the router.

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Comment from ballstein on 2007-02-22

2007-02-22T11:54:07Z

At first I couldn't remote desktop to my PC over the Hamachi adapter over the internet (it's behind a newish Billion router). After opening the RDP 3389 port on the router and pointing it to the LAN IP of my PC, it worked. While Hamachi is great, the fact that it doesn't work with my router without opening ports means I can't have more than one PC behind the router that is open for RDP, unless I hack the registries on the others to change the RDP ports they use.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-01-12

2007-01-12T19:30:40Z

Obviously, I disagree strongly with your statement. Not only has Hamachi been a great addition to my toolset, it works, and works well, for many, many others. You'll always hear from the 5% or so that have problems ... the other 95% have no need to post, as it's just working for them.

Hamachi has a very active support forum, and I encourage everyone who has difficulty with it to visit and post your scenarios there. Hit the "Support" link at http://hamachi.cc

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Comment from hamachi lies on 2007-01-12

2007-01-12T11:16:08Z

"It really is that easy." NO it is not. As you can see from the other cries for help. This POS software only works if you are very lucky. Don't believe the hype that it works for 95% of people.

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Comment from jo'' on 2006-12-15

2006-12-16T07:24:22Z

i install hamachi, too. but i can't connect to other (who have hamachi,) or he can't,
how do ı use hamachi? For example cs 1.6 on lan.
He says that he dont see anybody on lan area.
pls help me.!

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Comment from jem on 2006-11-23

2006-11-23T11:04:36Z

Hey,

My friend and i are having a problem.

We both have hamachi and we can't connect to each other. Is this because we both have routers if it is and in any case can someone email me in regards to fixing it. My email is
jemnader@gmail.com.

Thanks for your help

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Comment from jem on 2006-11-23

2006-11-23T11:02:58Z

Hey, i am having a problem.

My friend and i both have hamachi, but we can't connect to each other. Is this due to the fact that we both have routers.

Anyway i really need to know

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Comment from Frak on 2006-11-16

2006-11-16T22:56:31Z

....that should be 'more than 1 (one) hamachi clients'

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Comment from Frak on 2006-11-16

2006-11-16T22:55:11Z

I had a problem with very poor file/print sharing performance plus an intermittent broadband connection when having more than 11 hamachi clients running on the same lan/wlan.
Goto preferences>>status>>detailed configuration. Change the default values for 'connecting through nat'. Make each client use different ports.
The change was amazing. Performance is exaclty how you'd expect it to be.
I also think this solved my intermittent broadband connection issue as all the clients would have been trying to iopen the same ports on the router maybee.

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Comment from ozgurx on 2006-11-13

2006-11-13T11:10:55Z

i install hamachi, too. but i can't connect to other (who have hamachi,) or he can't,
how do ı use hamachi? For example cs 1.6 on lan.
He says that he dont see anybody on lan area.
pls help me.!

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Comment from johnson764 on 2006-10-26

2006-10-26T09:14:31Z

i use hamachi but my friend cant connect to my server.we install the hamachi to but still cant cinnect to my server some of my friends use only lan card easy to connect s router problem from hamachi

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Comment from joanis on 2006-09-06

2006-09-06T09:13:50Z

i cant ping other user ip address..!
tell me why...?
isn't my router problem...?

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Comment from bacnd on 2006-08-30

2006-08-30T15:15:34Z

Me and My friend setup Hamachi complete on 2 PC. when I ping, it always request timed out, we can't browse file share. Please help me, because I do many times so not work well

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Comment from Phil on 2006-07-11

2006-07-11T22:45:52Z

Leo,

RealVNC is great software, but it's got nothing to do with VPN, except that it can use one and lots of people only use their VPNs for VNC.

Also, OpenVPN is some pretty nice VPN software, if you have the wits and means to set it up.

Phil

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Comment from Jeff on 2006-06-22

2006-06-22T18:05:38Z

I, too set up Hamachi as a service on a XP Pro SP2 box. The box is on a domain. Suddenly, my print spooler service quits and I can no longer print from this box. Ideas??

Jeff

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Comment from Leo on 2006-06-07

2006-06-08T04:55:02Z

Make sure "Block vulnerable windows services" isn't checked in preferences. I regularly print remotely over my Hamachi VPN.

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Comment from Sean on 2006-06-07

2006-06-08T04:36:15Z

I set up Hamachi on two computers and successfully networked them together. However, I can't seem to do a lot of things you'd expect to do on networked computers. For example my printer doesn't show up when I search network for printers. Also I thought iTunes would work after I set up song sharing on a network. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong? By the way, you mentioned GoToMyPC as an alternative VPN tool. Have you tried LogMeIn. It's basically the same thing as GoToMyPC, but free.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-04-15

2006-04-15T15:45:31Z

Hamachi needs to be installed on all computers participating in your VPN. Once you do that, you can print directly to any printer shared by one of those machines as if they were on your local network. You can't remote control using Hamachi itself, that's not what it does, but with Hamachi running you can then run remote desktop across your VPN and remote control any machine that supports it.

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Comment from Anto on 2006-04-15

2006-04-15T10:08:29Z

I too use Hamachi. Its a good software. But I dont understand how you can use it to remote control the client. Also, I don't understand how you can print to a hamachi client.

Suppose I install Hamachi on one computer in a Lan, why can't I access other computers on the same Lan from the internet? I think that is a major drawback with Hamachi.

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Comment from neckerboy on 2006-04-07

2006-04-08T02:53:42Z

why cant i connect to www.hamachi.cc...im just using windows firewall that comes with windows xp...tnx

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Comment from Leo on 2006-04-03

2006-04-03T22:20:26Z

No, you simply need Hamachi running on both machines.

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Comment from Debashish on 2006-04-02

2006-04-03T07:19:03Z

can we not have hamachi running on one machine, and then access to that machine by simply creating a VPN connection to that IP by creating a dialup VPN from any windows 2000/XP system.
If yes what will be the parameters for the UserID, Password and the Domain.

This is really important.

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Comment from Ross on 2006-02-10

2006-02-11T02:28:34Z

Will you have to wait long for Hamachi to be upgraded to that it'll deliver the print job to your home?

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