Chatting on a Network

[Sundance Kid]

ok. So i'm at UBC campus, and i get wireless. First of all its so cool!

So I open iTunes, and it shows everyone elses Shared Music. Sooooo cool! So i share some of mine. Now i'm wondering is there a way i could chat to the poeple on the network? Do i need to you iChat?

oh yeah, with my sweet pb, i have tiger.


Thanks for your help guys!

 

[crazzyeddie]

iChat has Rendezvous chatting, but I bet not many people (if any) use it.

 

[Sundance Kid]

iChat has Rendezvous chatting, but I bet not many people (if any) use it.

So if the other people have Rendezvous, then i could chat with them because they are on the same network?

 

[crazzyeddie]

Right. Rendezvous is the zero-conf networking protocol that iTunes uses.

 

[Sirus The Virus]

Rendezvous chatting is awesome.

 

[mad jew]

It's Bonjour now, right? Or am I confused?

 

[Sundance Kid]

It's Bonjour now, right? Or am I confused?

yeah its Bonjour! (hello for you english types)


ok.... so i got bonjour! and ichat working.... but no one is showing up.
What do i do now? I used a AIM account.



Gah! i want to see it work!

 

[mad jew]

I haven't tried it, but I assume they'd have to get Bonjour working too.

Anyone close by with a Mac you could try this out with?



Oh, and for the record, I've had a bit of trouble on most public networks getting the iTunes sharing to work since I think the IT guys have probably somehow disabled it. Hopefully they won't have done the same with your network and iChat.

 

[ChrisFromCanada]

yeah its Bonjour! (hello for you english types)


ok.... so i got bonjour! and ichat working.... but no one is showing up.
What do i do now? I used a AIM account.



Gah! i want to see it work!

The thing is most of the people you are sharing music with are using PC's. Bonjour through iChat does not have a PC counterpart. If you know a Mac user on the network, try asking them to go on iChat with Bonjour/Rendezvous activated and see if they become online on your Bonjour/Rendezvous list.

 

[mad jew]

You can get Bonjour for Windows. Does anyone know if that'd help, somehow?

 

[paleck]

The thing is most of the people you are sharing music with are using PC's. Bonjour through iChat does not have a PC counterpart. If you know a Mac user on the network, try asking them to go on iChat with Bonjour/Rendezvous activated and see if they become online on your Bonjour/Rendezvous list.

PC types can use rendevous for chat, but only if they are using a chat program that supports. The only one that I know of is Trillian.