Re: MSN Messenger clones keep failing

Ray Olszewski
2003-11-04T15:41:45Z

At 09:23 AM 11/4/2003 +0100, James Miller (office) wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Amin wrote:
> >
> > Recently I got my internet connection up at home again and
> > downloaded the latest versions of Alvaro's MSN Messenger for
> > Linux and Ayttm for Linux. These are clones meant to get me
> > into MSN Messenger chat. But they keep failing, saying my
> > username and/or password are incorrect.
> >
> > I can easily sign in with MSN Messenger 6 on the same
> > machine---I dual boot with Win98---but I'd much rather use
> > Linux :-)
> >
> > Does anybody have any experience with this? And can anyone
> > lend a hand? Thanks.
> >
>Well, I don't have direct experience with any of those clients, nor with
>trying to chat on MSN from Linux. But I do read some computer news, and
>have seen articles recently (within the last month?) that talk about an
>impending M$ plan to cut off their network from other chat clients. I
>understood that this was to apply to all non-M$ clients as well as to
>earlier versions of M$'s client as well. Maybe this explains the trouble
>you're having?

If the original poster is referring to the Sourceforge project

http://amsn.sourceforge.net/

it purports to work with the "new" (post-Oct 15) MSN standards ... that
is, version 0.83 does. So if that (or something later) is what he means by
"latest version", this is *probably* not the problem.

ayttm, OTOH, does appear to be too old (at least in its Debian incarnation
- I can't seem to find the upstream home of this project) to support the
new protocol.

It would be easier to diagnose the problem if we had a better description
of what it was. "But they keep failing, saying my username and/or password
are incorrect" is inexact. Please post again, this time including exactly
what you enter (conceal ONLY a password with Xs, nothing else) and exactly
how each program responds. Details always count. Could this be simply a
(local) permissions problem, for example?