From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: MSN Messenger clones keep failing Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:41:45 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20031104073149.02010830@celine> References: <3FA79E82.3080204@siriusbb.com> <3FA79E82.3080204@siriusbb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: References: <3FA79E82.3080204@siriusbb.com> <3FA79E82.3080204@siriusbb.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs