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?
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