Kevin, Your situation sounds very specific, so perhaps it's time to create a matrix to find a pattern that could be causing this....
Here's an example: http://i.imgur.com/XbaVWnY.png -Tres On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:17 AM, David Balažic <[email protected]>wrote: > Have you tried to turn off the firewall on the desktop PCs that are having > problems? > Or even on the laptop? > > What firewall are you using? Note that some 3rd party firewalls block some > network traffic even when "turned off". > > It might also help to know which ports are used by each PC. > the netstat command gives that information. > > On Windows it supports the -b option which prints what program is using > each connection. (requires administrative privileges, I suggest running the > CMD.exe as (local) Administrator, but not Pidgin, run Pidgin as as it is > run normally) > > Also check the used ports on the Macs. > > Maybe the desktop PCs are using different ports than the others... > > Regards, > David Balažic > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Support [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > Kevin Justie > > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 11:31 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: mac-to-pc chats > > > > On an all-Mac, iChat-using network, I've now added a PC with > > Pidgin. Chatting between Mac and PC works perfectly -- as > > long as the PC initiates the chat. If I try to initiate the > > chat from a Mac -- meaning the PC does not already have a > > chat conversation window open for the Mac -- the chat sent by > > the Mac never appears on the PC and on the Mac I get "The > > instant messaging connection failed." Yet I can immediately > > chat from PC to Mac, and that works, and then I can chat back > > from Mac to PC. > > > > Something I've missed in setup or configuration that's > > preventing initial chats from showing up on the PC? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > -- - [email protected]
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