I am having problems with a few of the workstations in my domain. For some reason a couple of the computers won't allow the "Offer Remote Assistance" feature. The error that we receive is "Your offer to help could not be sent".
We are applying this option via group policy and it is working on all but 2 computers. We are using remote assistance from XP SP3 to XP SP3. I have manually enabled remote assistance, disabled the firewall and have confirmed that the Remote Assistance user has been added to the Remote Assistance group.
What could be causing this remote assistance error on only two PCs?
Best Answer
I've had a similar problem and never got around to fixing it. On my computers I suspect that it's because of LOCAL group policy on a few of the machines (they were customised before I inherited them).
Unfortunately there's no way to set LOCAL group policy to factory without re-imaging the machine, and I don't fancy comparing the trillion settings looking for the few causing Remote Assistance to fail.
I switched to teamviewer which offers a lot of benefits over Remote Assistance from MS.