iChat Problem/

[xagoldsteinx]

My buddy just got a new iMac.
He is trying to login to iChat with his AIM account, but he get's an error message reading something along the lines of:

"Could not connect. There is already a connection from this computer's IP address."

Help?

 

[Jay42]

Can he get on the net? (go to google?)

EDIT: Hmm, I misread your post. I don't think I've ever seen this. Its an error message in a separate dialogue box?

 

[xagoldsteinx]

yes

 

[calebjohnston]

you said that it's new? do you mean factory-new or refreshed/refurbished? The only possible way that I could see this error occuring is if there is some left over file. But I find that extremely unlikely. I'd call apple on this one. They'd know a lot more.

 

[janey]

is someone else on the same network logged into AIM at the same time? That would do that.

 

[VTRichard]

My buddy just got a new iMac.
He is trying to login to iChat with his AIM account, but he get's an error message reading something along the lines of:

"Could not connect. There is already a connection from this computer's IP address."

Help?

Here is a site that may fix your problem. http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/index.html
Good Luck, Richard in Vermont