Re: iChat an Messenger Problems

In article <op.t6vfv7rk4ppaiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John <john.hynes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

Wondered if anyone has any solutions/suggestions for this problem.

I've just bought my first Mac about 6 weeks ago (and love it). I'm now
having problems using iChat and MS Messenger on it. I'm not a chat person
really but when I tried to use iChat with my brother (a confirmed Mac
user) all was successful and managed a video/audio conversation. Then one
day opened iChat and got the message:
"Could not connect to AIM - The host refusted the connection, try again".
This is now the norm when I load the program.

Similarly MS Messenger, which previously worked fine, gives the Message:
"Sign in to Microsoft Messenger failed because the service is not
available or you may not be connected to the internet".

I am connected to the internet when this happens.

I have Parallels installed running Windows XP and when I load Messenger
under that, or on the old PC, everything works fine.

I also installed Yahoo messenger amd Skype to try, these too seems to work
fine.

Being new to Macs, I wonder if there's some setting I have changed which
could cause these problems.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I assume that since this is a sis-week old Mac, you're running Mac OS X
10.5, but it would be a help to mention the Mac Model and OS version in
the future.

Have you turned in the firewall (System Preferences->Security->Firewall)?
If so, and if you have not allowed the iChatAgent to accept incomming
connections, that may be the problem.

PS Please don't use two signature separator lines (-- ).

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