Tiger Bits: Tiger to Panther iChat Bug?
I
keep thinking about this whenever it happens, but I also keep either
forgetting to post about it or I sit staring at the keyboard debating
whether it is worthy of a post. Thankfully, this post over at MacInTouch
holds enough of a vague similarity to this issue to persuade me to ask:
Have you been having problems communicating between Tiger and other
versions of OS X?Some of the MacInTouch readers are reporting receiving the following message when trying to connect to non-Tiger systems via file sharing: "This file server uses an incompatible version of the AFP protocol. You cannot connect to it." I, myself, have noticed that I cannot send files via iChat to non-Tiger users. Laurie and I tested this briefly the other day. When she was on Panther, we couldn't send pictures back and forth in iChat, but when she switched over to her Tiger system, everything went through fine without any problems.
Are any TUAW readers experiencing these types of file transfer / file sharing problems since installing Tiger? Please share.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Michael Katz said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I had trouble with ichat video chat in tiger, kept saying there were problems with bandwith or the other person didn't accept, no matter what i tried with bandwith setting
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Chris Mcdowell said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I can recieve files from panther users but when I send panther users files they get an error and mine just says waiting for them to accept the connection. It is something like unable to connect you cannot transfer a second file bcause the file already exists. I can send to AIM users just not iChat. Same computer running panther just if he uses aim instead of iChat.
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aprodite said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I'm still using Panther for the next couple of hours, and a friend who has just installed Tiger was able to send an image with no problems.
N.B. This was an inline image, not a file transfer. (Inline, as in displayed in the chat window)
Hope the info helps you out
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Jerry Halstead said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
We've had some strange behavior with both and are starting to wonder if it's more of a random router thing.
Tiger - Panther: audio & video chats, from home and work, with one person it will work one day and not the next. Image xfer works.
Tiger - Tiger: no audio or video, from home or work, although if we are both on the same network it works no problem.
It's acting like sometimes the Panther ports fall outside the range of what the router permits and that tiger-tiger consistently does. Still troubleshooting.
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Ari said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Ya it happened to me and my sis yesterday - She tried sending me some files and it didnt work (i didnt try sending her any files tho), so we just used skype and sent them that way.
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chaise said 4:18PM on 6-16-2005
Audio does not work anymore for me.
Text chat still works fine.
Jabber is a hell to configure, but after hours, that works fine with MSN/ICQ !
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retro said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Yep, Audio, no longer works for me since swithcing to Tiger....some people can invite me to audio chat, others say I am unavailable to audio chat????
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Vince Marco said 12:09PM on 6-19-2005
I am having problems with both tiger-tiger and tiger-panther video chat. The error I get is "Can't get video from the camera". Audio works fine in both cases, and I've tried it on a Computer-to-Computer wireless connection, so the router isn't involved. The odd thing is that I can get a picture locally, it is only when connecting via the network. I also tried One-way video from each camera and get the same message, so it doesn't appear to be an iSight hardware issue.
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Jay said 1:13PM on 7-05-2005
Since installing Tiger in our California office, we can no longer send requests for video chat with our Panther office in NY. We get "receiver failed to accept" errors. We can accept Panther Video Chats no problem.
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Ert Dredge said 9:05PM on 7-08-2005
Since I upgraded to Tiger I've been unable to video or audio chat, and iChat frequently crashes when sitting quietly in the background. Apple Support just told me they're getting a number of these reports and I should await an update of some kind when they get it figured out.
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Kaan said 1:01AM on 7-09-2005
For anybody who has seen the "Can't get video from the camera" error, if you are running postgres on your machine it is likely causing a conflict (if you are unsure whether you're running postgres, you almost certainly are not, as it isn't a default software app). I found a suggestion about this conflict, and once I brought down postgres and its related processes, iChat and my iSight camera function perfectly.
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mathew said 7:24PM on 7-12-2005
I've used ichat to send files to AIM users without a hitch... and inline images...havn't tried non tiger users yet...
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Randall said 3:23PM on 7-16-2005
Since upgrading to Tiger, iChat always tells me that my camera is in use by another application. I have not been able to find any help whatsoever regarding this issue. I guess I am the only one with this kind of bad luck.
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Almo said 9:44AM on 7-22-2005
I have this message BUT the difference is I am trying to connect to a system 9 machine over ethernet. Also the system 9 machine will not see Tiger. it will connect happly to panther though.
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Almo said 9:51AM on 7-22-2005
I have just found out that the reason this message appears is because - get this - Apple have dropped 'AppleTalk' protocol for Tiger so old systems that use this or software that may run using this protocol will no longer work or be recognised. Thanks Apple!
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Lolliffe said 5:21PM on 8-01-2005
Since switching to Tiger, I can EITHER audio chat OR video chat, but when I connect, it WON'T do BOTH. So, if i vid-chat, i have to type, or i can aud-chat, but no image. Preferences show that everything it recognized, and it's getting the audio, but in the "Connection Doctor" the statistics show my "quality" at 0%. Any clues? Lolliffe@getty.edu
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picturegrl said 2:46PM on 8-16-2005
Tiger to Panther: I am never able to transfer images.
Panther to Tiger: Image transfer usually works but sometimes doesn't.
this is really frustrating. I hope there is a fix soon.
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rjinnella said 7:40AM on 9-07-2005
I can't audio tiger to panther on a couple of machines. However IM works for text messaging.
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Evgeni Belin said 1:13AM on 12-23-2005
Kaan is right about Postgres - iChat is probably trying to use standard postgres port for streaming video and, naturally, fails. Unfortunately, the error message is cryptic
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