Comments on TooneTown Blog: 10 steps to a multi-protocol iChat.

Thanks for the write up.Works like a charm.--Has a...

2008-07-11T02:54:00.000-06:00

Thanks for the write up.
Works like a charm.
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Has anyone had any luck setting up and connecting to any IRC servers and channels?

My gateway config for my irc server works (test completed fine).

But getting into rooms is currently a mystery.

fantastic... i got it... just had to wait a little...

2008-07-07T08:11:00.000-06:00

fantastic... i got it... just had to wait a little, log out of (close) and log in to (open) iChat a couple of times... my contacts are there!
now the test... does it work OK??? I had so much trouble with the psi equivalent, so i'm REALLY hoping this is better!
with many thanks

hi,i got the same as Ali, above... no contacts add...

2008-07-07T08:05:00.000-06:00

hi,
i got the same as Ali, above... no contacts added... (I'm configuring just for msn at the moment)
i have a hell of a lot of contacts and really don't want to add them by hand, especially as your step 10 looks like gobbledegeek to me! (no offence)
i followed everything to the letter, or at least i think i did...)
whats going on? what have i done wrong? i'm using leopard
with thanks

Thanks for the tip. I had to change the yahoo ser...

2008-07-02T01:58:00.000-06:00

Thanks for the tip. I had to change the yahoo server to scsa.msg.yahoo.com to get it to work. With the default (scs.msg.yahoo.com) I kept getting failures when testing the connection.

I set up iChat to use an external jabber server wi...

2008-06-13T12:45:00.000-06:00

I set up iChat to use an external jabber server with MSN transport and the reliability was crap! Followed these instructions to set up a local one and its working like a charm, thank you!

Ian.

heyit works, well i followed all the steps and it ...

2008-05-31T16:52:00.000-06:00

hey

it works, well i followed all the steps and it connects but i dont have any contacts... why is that?

This article was right on the money. Thanks so muc...

2008-05-30T13:30:00.000-06:00

This article was right on the money. Thanks so much for taking the time to put it together.

Thanks a bunch! I used this post as a springboard ...

2008-05-29T10:50:00.000-06:00

Thanks a bunch! I used this post as a springboard to setting up OpenFire on a FreeBSD machine at my office; I connect my Mac to the Yahoo and GTalk services through it. Someday my company (very small company) may use the OpenFire server to run its own chat server (so we don't have to run everything through Yahoo or Google).

Excellent writeup, I "reviewed" the post for StumbleUpon.

thanks a bunch. very clear. why isn't there a lin...

2008-05-18T12:55:00.000-06:00

thanks a bunch. very clear. why isn't there a link to this on the openfire page??

Can a movie cam working with iChat communicate wit...

2008-04-29T08:11:00.000-06:00

Can a movie cam working with iChat communicate with Yahoo users using Webcams? If so how do you set this up?

Thanks a lot, Nathan! I tried a couple of options ...

2008-04-27T00:45:00.000-06:00

Thanks a lot, Nathan! I tried a couple of options using psi, but wasn't happy because my main issue was the security (just like you) on other jabber servers. Its great to have your logon info on a personal server and the integration with ichat works perfect! although, openfire should allow more than one user ids per IM service.

The entire day today I was fighting with this prob...

2008-04-23T06:47:00.000-06:00

The entire day today I was fighting with this problem of getting my Yahoo on the I-Chat and finally "all thanks to your step by step help" and Openfire it is working very well. I tried half a dozen other jabber sites and psi etc etc and was not happy. Thanks Mate. Your instructions were very clear.

Thank you for your instructions! They are very goo...

2008-04-02T17:29:00.000-06:00

Thank you for your instructions! They are very good and effective. I'm having a minor issue with my iChat implementation after following your instructions. Have you experienced some lost/missing messages?

In a few instances, I've been chating with somebody and I seem to not being able to receive messages. It's a minor issue, but very annoying. :-(

Thank you so much for the great help. U r article ...

2008-03-31T16:38:00.000-06:00

Thank you so much for the great help. U r article is fantastic and it is accurate and easy to follow. Couldn't do it without ur help. Thanks a bunch.

how do i setup one account say e.g.xyz to authenti...

2008-03-20T12:14:00.000-06:00

how do i setup one account say e.g.

xyz

to authenticate

abc@gmail.com - gtalk
def@msn.com - msn
pqr@yahoo.com - yahoo

also to setup only one single gtalk acc:

are this steps correct?

1. Create a user in User/Groups in Openfire tab as
userid : xyz
2. Add registration for gtalk user as
jid = xyz uname=abc@gmail.com pwd=xxx

My question is, do we need to create both these userid and jid to be same?

No - no webcam or video support. The plugins to o...

2008-03-16T10:42:00.000-06:00

No - no webcam or video support. The plugins to openfire (jabber) that allow cross-platform communication aren't written to support video at this time (nor encryption).

Hi this is great but just to clarify there is no w...

2008-03-16T05:20:00.000-06:00

Hi this is great but just to clarify there is no webcam support?

How awesome is this? I love it!It worked perfectly...

2008-03-08T00:25:00.000-07:00

How awesome is this? I love it!

It worked perfectly, thanks to the GREAT and very thorough walkthrough.

Thank you!

OUTSTANDING walk-through. Thank you! Of course, th...

2008-03-01T15:20:00.000-07:00

OUTSTANDING walk-through. Thank you! Of course, the web junkies always want MORE, MORE, MORE! :-)

Wish List
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* Video chat with all services via iSight.
* Encrypted connections for at least ICQ and AIM (a la Trillian).
* Multiple Service/Username's under Openfire Gateway Registration.

Item three may merit clarification. If I have two Yahoo ID's, one personal and one business, for instance ... then when I click Add Registration for the second, Openfire presently replaces the first. Hence, only one YIM ID at a time. Make sense?

I cannot seem to get the ichat video to work for m...

2008-02-23T13:41:00.000-07:00

I cannot seem to get the ichat video to work for my contacts on googletalk - have not tried for ICQ or AIM yet. Everything else seems to work fine. I am not very technical but your step by step instructions have worked well so far.
Thanks.

Thanks Nathan, This really worked out great and I ...

2008-02-22T05:12:00.000-07:00

Thanks Nathan, This really worked out great and I like how you set your own avatar for your contacts. Hope I can get video chat working too!

Does this address the issue of iChat being unable ...

2008-02-18T11:21:00.000-07:00

Does this address the issue of iChat being unable to enter password protected jabber chatrooms?

We have a local Openfire server we use internally, could I do the same thing on it (it's on Debian Etch).

I've been using Spark to connect to the password protected jabber chat and iChat to do ICQ. My preference would be to do everything with iChat.

Wow... amazing, truely amazing. The Microsoft MSN...

2008-02-15T15:29:00.000-07:00

Wow... amazing, truely amazing. The Microsoft MSN Client is hit-and-miss on weather I'm connected or not, and Adium is ... well, it's good, but it's not great.

iChat is wonderfully awesome. Thanks for laying this groundwork!

I have successully registered my MSN buddies and c...

2008-02-07T16:12:00.000-07:00

I have successully registered my MSN buddies and can chat to them, but I cannot send files. The options are greyed out.

I'm using Mac OS Tiger.

I was hoping this would be a lot easier than using...

2008-01-28T12:59:00.000-07:00

I was hoping this would be a lot easier than using Psi, and I liked your instructions, but is there any way to auto-authorize? I have about 45 people in my Yahoo buddy list and don't want to add them all individually and then have them all say "waiting for authorization."

Also, neither Yahoo nor MSN contacts auto-loaded for me. I'm on a macbook running 10.5.1. Any ideas?