Having installed Debian on a mate's PC, his kids are complaining because they can't get onto MSN Messenger...
The kids have given me a username eg. '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and a password to go with it (an English word). I've tried these in gaim, kmerlin and everybuddy; none of them can connect and it doesn't look like it's because they've given me an invalid username/password. gaim (v0.58) is the least informative; when I try to connect, it responds very quickly with a dialog saying [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been signed off: Disconnected. From kmerlin 0.3.4-pre3 I get: Sending protocol Sending server policy (long pause, of a minute or more) Idle detection enabled: true Timer: 15 set connected to: false Call cancelConnect() (repeated indefinitely) From everybuddy-cvs (EveryBuddy v0.2.1beta7) (logged with 'everybuddy > logfile 2>&1') I get: Can't open contact file(/home/pigeon/.everybuddy/contacts) for reading: No such file or directory notes init Licq Contact List init ICQ99 Contact List init GnomeICU Contact List init Gaim Buddy List init SetProtocol: comparing VER 20 0 to VER 20 MSNP2 SetProtocol: comparing VER 21 0 to VER 21 MSNP2 <snip 22 to 39> SetProtocol: comparing VER 40 0 to VER 40 MSNP2 Unable to login to MSN Using esd sound MSN_Read(): "VER 20 0" --Meredydd MSN_Read(): "VER 21 0" --Meredydd <snip 22 to 39> MSN_Read(): "VER 40 0" --Meredydd and from everybuddy 0.4.3: Connect went fine Connected (pause) MSN: Error: Protocol negotiation failed Not found chatroom Closed connection with socket -1 Anybody got any ideas what's going on here / what to check? Also, anyone know how you obtain the username and password which these clients require to connect? I'm not 100% sure about the one the kids have given me; it does seem to be valid for logging in to hotmail but does that automatically make it valid for an MSN Messenger client? (I'm somewhat hampered by the fact that I hardly know what MSN Messenger *is* apart from being something I find totally uninteresting! :-) so have never bothered to try and get a Linux client going for it myself... no experience whatsoever!) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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