More LJ neepery

[davidlevine]

I want to try LJ Talk. I set up a Jabber account in iChat with davidlevine@livejournal.com as my login, my LJ password as the password, livejournal.com as the server, port 5222, and SSL turned off. When I try to connect, I get this error: "iChat was unable to login to the Jabber service because your screen name or password was incorrect."

Is there an LJ Talk community where I could be asking this question more productively?

ETA: Apparently the fix is to uncheck the "Use my machine name" checkbox under "Location:". Weird.

Comments

[joshenglish.livejournal.com]

I have a jabber account, but an old Jabbernaut program (stuck on OS9.22). I can't log in to the livejournal server because of a faulty password. I'm using my LJ password, too.

You might want to try the Jabber IM (http://community.livejournal.com/jabber_im/) community.

[redbird]

Seems to work okay using GAIM (1.5, I think).

[drplokta]

I've not been able to connect to LJ chat with iChat for several days. I think they've broken something.

[iggyspawn.livejournal.com]

Sorry it's not very useful information but Gaim 2.0.0 Beta3 is working for me, at least on LJ. Connecting to googletalk is failing for me recently.

[davidlevine]

drplokta is having the same problem. Well, they did warn us that it's not ready for prime time. I guess I'll just be patient.

[davidlevine]

joshenglish is having the same problem. Well, they did warn us that it's not ready for prime time. I guess I'll just be patient.

Hmmm

[anysia.livejournal.com]

It is working with Trillian Pro. I think you might be right,that there are still a few bugs to iron out.

[nos3030.livejournal.com]

I found your post by searching in Google about this issue, I'd like to connect to LJ chat using iChat but I get the exact errors you get. I tried with Adium (os X) and it works just fine. Seems like its an issue with iChat only :P

[davidlevine]

I'm still having the same problem. I've submitted a support request but so far no one's done anything about it other than to add "[ichat]" to the subject.

[nos3030.livejournal.com]

That's the price we have to pay for being Mac users (the minority) it's ok, I rather use Adium or any other Jabber client instead of using Winblows :P

[davidlevine]

Apparently the fix is to uncheck the "Use my machine name" checkbox under "Location:". Weird.

[nos3030.livejournal.com]

I'll be damned... it worked! Weird indeed... thank you very much for the tip :)