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Tiger Bits: Tiger to Panther iChat Bug?

tiger ichatI 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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Evgeni Belin

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

December 23 2005 at 1:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rjinnella

I can't audio tiger to panther on a couple of machines. However IM works for text messaging.

September 06 2005 at 9:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
picturegrl

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.

August 16 2005 at 2:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lolliffe

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

July 31 2005 at 12:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Almo

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!

July 22 2005 at 9:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Almo

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.

July 22 2005 at 9:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Randall

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.

July 16 2005 at 1:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kaan

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.

July 09 2005 at 1:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ert Dredge

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.

July 08 2005 at 6:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Vince Marco

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.

June 19 2005 at 10:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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