Getting Messenger to work for Mac's on campus

Red Alert

If the machine's image included MSN there wouldn't be a problem, because I re-image Win XP machines at home and the image includes MSN.

PennyLane

MistressPandora wrote: »

Hang on, you're all students, aren't you guys supposed to be studying or something?

Well, there's those of us in the dorms who would like to occasionally be doing other things. And then there's those of us in the dorms who are international students and would like to do things like use Skype, which doesn't seem to get along with the proxies either, at least on Macs.

Breezer

Hmm, should I be worried that no one has started yelling at us all to use 'proper PCs' the way they did the last time I brought this up?

Red Alert

I think the slight increase in mac market share has knocked that one on the head. CS should have a network that works, not one that just serves their self-appointed role as policemen. The messenger port should be open - full stop.

Notorious

I think its ridiculous that comp services block the MSN ports. Think there is a perfectly valid reason behind it?
I'm using Pidgin and setting the port to 8585 and using HTTP method I connect perfectly. The connection to MSN drops occasionally, but after around 5 sec., it'll have connected again.
Whelo10, have you tried using Adium yet? Maybe give that a shot with the port setttings?

Breezer

Adium doesn't work at all in UCD in my experience. If this was working I wouldn't care about MSN messenger

Whelo10

Whelo10, have you tried using Adium yet? Maybe give that a shot with the port setttings? [/QUOTE]

Yeah im always on Adium, its never worked in ucd, the closest ive gotten to it working, was using the 8585 port using msn, but that only lasted 2mins

OTNiner

PennyLane wrote: »

Well, there's those of us in the dorms who would like to occasionally be doing other things. And then there's those of us in the dorms who are international students and would like to do things like use Skype, which doesn't seem to get along with the proxies either, at least on Macs.

Has anyone logged this as a formal call with IT Services?

perhaps MistressPandora can shed some light on this?

given they report on top issues / calls to the help desk under performance

http://www.ucd.ie/itservices/itplanning/itperformance/

logging a sufficient number of calls should generate a response

MistressPandora

OTNiner wrote: »

Has anyone logged this as a formal call with IT Services?

perhaps MistressPandora can shed some light on this?

given they report on top issues / calls to the help desk under performance

http://www.ucd.ie/itservices/itplanning/itperformance/

logging a sufficient number of calls should generate a response

AFAIK I haven't heard anybody logging calls, but a few people came into the centre when term started asking about getting Skype and MSN set up, but nothing about Aduim etc.
And as for my earlier post where I asked if you're all supposed to be studying, t'was a joke. Personally I believe you should be able to connect to messenger in UCD, but maybe the higher-ups think it'd slow down the server. And considering how slow it can get between noon and 4pm (mostly from people using Bebo from what I see), it's not surprising why they think that.

OTNiner

PennyLane wrote: »

Well, there's those of us in the dorms who would like to occasionally be doing other things. And then there's those of us in the dorms who are international students and would like to do things like use Skype, which doesn't seem to get along with the proxies either, at least on Macs.

Skype om MAC has a problem with autodetect proxy settings - set the proxy to proxy.ucd.ie on port 84848 or 8585

Give it time to connect, the skype client allways tries to connect directly to the internet and only when this fails / times out will it attempt to connect through the proxy server