Chat Room in Messages?

Is there a site/tutorial for setting up Chat room in Messages?

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When I type a message on my wireless keyboard, in a chat room, when I hit enter to send it, it does not go...any ideas or help. I am wondering if somehow I have locked it, but not sure if I did...how to unlock it

When I type a message in a chat room, on my wireless keyboard, hit enter to post it, nothing happens. I am not sure if somehow I have inadvertently locked the keyboard...and if I did...how do I unlock it!!

I don't think you can lock your keyboard, but then again, I've been known to be wrong
see if your wireless keyboard has become unpaired (I'm assuming here, that it's bluetooth).
Make sure that the keyboard's batteries are okay, and that the power switch (if the keyboard has on) has been turned on, then go into Bluetooth preferences, and make sure your keyboard is discoverable, pairable and a favorite, and that Bluetooth is turned on. Re-pair the device with your iMac and it should respond. If not, you may have to delete it from the Bluetooth, add it again, and re-pair it, if that makes any sense to you. Sounds like you may also have some lag in replying in your chat room, maybe the chat program you are using might have a preference or two??
JB

Setting up Chat Room with Jabber

I am trying to create a chat room for multiple users all using a Jabber (gmail) account within ichat. Is there a special naming protocol to creating a chat room or do you need to create an address somewhere before joining this chat room?
I have no problem doing it with my .me account but for work everyone is on gmail so we ideally be able to use the Jabber accounts for group chats.
I did mange to "create" one called [email protected] (our domain) but when I tried to join I get the grey spinning wheel and don't get any further.
Clearly I'm missing something so any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Sarah

Hi,
GoogleTalk is supposed to allow group chats.
These tend to be called "Conferences" on most Jabber servers.
Most Jabber servers have a section of additional itme your can "register" for and Login to.
However to do this takes a third party app like Psi.
This can then do "Service Discovery" on the server in question and show what features you can sign up for.
These can include "Transports" that allow you to add Buddies from different services and Conference calls.
Having said that if you do Service Discovery on GoogleTalk you find nothing
Many apps also presume the server name is the last part of your user ID and for Google with it's @gmail.com and @googlemail.com this does not work properly in some of these apps.
This page has Instructions for how to set up a Transport to MSN using Psi and you can see the Service Discovery panel.
Essentially a room has to be given a Name and this is coupled with the Jabber server name it is on so that it looks something like this:-
[email protected]
The room "ralph" is on the conference server at the jabber.org.uk server.
Substituting [email protected] does not seem to work as a room name.
It may pay to start from a Web Browser login and see if a room name becomes apparent that way.
Edit
The last two "links" I have tried to remove the Links but they keep get added back
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Chat room using multicast socket

hi-
i have a chat room based on multicast socket with a SWING GUI interface. i want group members to be able to establish a shared secret(bases on extended n-party diffie-hellman algorithm) to encrypt all messages exchanged . Re-keying happens upon member join and leave. In order to do key agreement i need to identify the number of subscribers in the multicast chat room all time. i am having trouble setting up a centralized counter to keep track of distributed users 'cause each time a user joins the chat he or she invokes a different copy of the chat program(command line usage: java chatroom <user name>). please help me setting up a counter to count the subscriber and identify joins and leaves.... my main questin is where within the program to set up a counter variable like this to keep track of distributed users? please help...thanks!

thanks for your reply... ummm yeah securing a chat room based on multicast poses many problems mainly because of the lack of a chat server. i really haven't gotten any of them sorted out. well the only reason to use encryption is to provide perfect forward secrecy and backward secrecy, meaning a user who just joined the chat room can't decipher any previous session of conversation prior to his join and a user who just left the chat room can't use the group session key he had to decrypt any future conversation. Access control and authorization is ignored. User can join the chat room without permission of the existing members.
yes a flat hierarchy is assumed(all group members are treated equally....no fixed member is given privilege to generate and distribute keys). However, for the key agreement protocol to take place the last joined member is chosen as a group leader and is responsible of re-keying his share in the previous group session key. The newly joined member adds his share and everybody computes the new group session key based on Diffie-Hellman. This group leader role floats...
you are right... without being able to detect joins/leaves and the correct order of those joins and leaves, none of these can be realized.
Can i chain a separate server just to keep track of membership changes?

Jabber Chat Room

In messages you can press Command R and bring up "Go to Chat Room" and the OS X Server is listed in the Account field. How do you create Chat Rooms in OS X Messages Server ?
Thanks,
ebrind

Leopard resolved this.

How do you join a jabber chat room with a password?

In the latest released version of Messages is it possible to join a Jabber/XMPP chat room that requires a password?
- Jim

Hi,
To be perfectly honest I don't know the answer.
I have never tried to join that type of Chatroom.
I suspect though that it cannot be done in iChat or Messages.
There is no place to add a Password and I have never seen a Pop up
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File Transfers in Chat Rooms?

We're running OS X Server 10.8.3. Is there any known way to have the ability to transfer files inside of a Chat Room? I find it mind-numbing that this isn't possible. We cannot use the chat room feature at all without this. Does anyone know of a way to get it to work or are we stuck now having to look for a third party chat room product?
thanks,
Ben

I'm not sure either of you understood my question. I'll try to make it more clear, in case anyone else has any ideas or feedback that could help:
We are using Mac OS X Server, 10.8.3. We are using the "Messages Server" service. When using a "persistent chat room" -- one of the supposed features of OS X Server. From http://www.apple.com/osx/server/features/#communication ...
"Messages Server brings the collaborative power of instant messaging to your organization. Now workgroups can transfer files securely, share group messages, conduct audio conferences, even broadcast a presentation, movie, or photo slideshow to other Messages users running OS X."
And from the OS X Server product overview PDF, pg. 18...
Group Collaboration Made Easy
Messages Server works with OS X to automatically populate users’ buddy lists with
members of the groups to which they belong, so it’s easy for them to start communicating. And thanks to store-and-forward functionality, Messages Server allows users
to send messages to buddies who are online, combining the advantages of instant
messaging and email.
Messages users can request Messages Server to create and host a persistent chat
room. Perfect for virtual-team scenarios, project-specific discussions, and real-time,
blow-by-blow updates, the chat room allows individuals to join at any time, leave
when they need to—even log out and shut down—and still come back to review
all communications from the time the chat room opened.
Here's the problem I'm perplexed by:
File transfers work just fine when doing 1-to-1 chats. However, in a "Chat Room", they do not work at all.
I realize that this may be "just how it is" but I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge of a way to make it possible. Seems like a ridiculous limitation, and one that makes the entire (otherwise useful) feature of "persistent chat rooms" all but moot for us.
thanks,
Ben

How do I get my mic to work in Paltalk chat rooms?

I recently joined up with Paltalk, a site that has hundreds of chat rooms with live audio and video, as well as a normal type message area. I can post but thats all and even that is very slow. I can hear and see the other chatters messages but I cannot figure out how to use a mic (built in or otherwise) and get it to work in the chat rooms. How do I use my mic in the chat room?

Thanks but I have asked for their help several times and it's like talking to a wall. I was hoping someone here could help. Communicating with Paltalk is quite useless, nevermind trying to figure out how to report a bug with them.

How do I get an empty chat room to go away?

I know there are similar questions on the board, but nothing I've tried has worked so far. When I log on, an empty chat room pops open. Before upgrading to 10.6, I used to get a prompt every couple months about this chat room, but it was so inconsistent, I never tried to get rid of it. Now its happening every time I log on. Suggestions?

Hi,
Welcome to the  Discussions
In iChat Menu > Preferences > Messages do you have Save Transcripts turned On ?
If so, do you also have the "In new Chat Window, Show..." option ticked ?
Delete any Saved Transcript for this Blank room
The Messages pane will tell you where they are stored at the Save Transcripts spot.
You may have to delete com.apple.ichat.plist because in iChat 4 you could use an option to "Remember Open chats Across (iChat) Launch but this option is not there in iChat 5.
This file has to be gone to manually in your Home Folder/Library/Preferences
Unfortunately it will lose all the settings you have made in the iChat Preferences regarding Font choice,Colour, Bubble colour, Incoming Bubble and Font colour and Alert Messages, Save Transcripts and the Menu bar icon plus any Saved Status Messages you have made.
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Unable to connect to chat room

I recently upgraded to Flash 11.8.800.168 for my Mac and am now unable to access chat rooms that i was previously able to connect with. I receive a message saying "Connection Failed"

Dear Al
Thanks for your reply.
I have just found out what's wrong. I went to the 'more info' section of my Chitchat application and it took me to a link where it explained that Yahoo Chat has ditched chatting with the Java protocol and chatters can now only chat via the Yahoo Messenger protocol, which is Yahoo Instant Messenger with Voice. Unfortunately Yahoo doesn't provide a platform for Yahoo Voice for Macintosh computers. Though the original link I went to provides another link to a thing called 'Adium' from which a Mac can access Yahoo Chat's new protocol, although it's not fully developed yet.
Oh...and thanks so much for letting me know about the Java update release. I did not know that I have to upgrade my system first to recieve the latest update information.
Regards
Tina

How do chat rooms work?

I was trying to figure out exactly how chat rooms work. Is there such a thing as a basic chatroom message tutorial?
Do the applets use sockets to connect to a Java Runtime program that echo's the messages back out to every applet?
I'm starting to think it would be ezier just to build a chatroom with Red5+Flash using the shared object.

iceflyin wrote:
I was trying to figure out exactly how chat rooms work. Is there such a thing as a basic chatroom message tutorial?
Do the applets use sockets to connect to a Java Runtime program that echo's the messages back out to every applet?
I'm starting to think it would be ezier just to build a chatroom with Red5+Flash using the shared object.It looks like you're just stringing random techno-buzzwords together without understanding what any of those words mean.
Do you know what an applet is? Why do you think one would be involved in a chat app?
What's a "Java Runtime program", in your world?
What would Flash have to do with a chat room?
Basic idea:
Central server at known IP address and port.
All clients ("chatters") connect to that server.
When client A chats with client B, client A sends message to server, which in turn forwards it to client B.

Can't see/access newly created chat rooms

We have an issue where users can create chat rooms but are unable to see/access them after they're created. Does anyone have any experience with this and knows why this happens and how to fix? Thanks.
Mike

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Denied Access to Chat Room...

I can chat with individuals, but about a week ago, I could not join AIM Chat rooms. The error message reported an AIM socket error.
Following instructions I found here, I dragged my com.apple.iChat.AIM.plist file into the trash.
When I restarted Messages and tried the chat room, I received a different error message.
Error> NoError
I returned to read up on this issue, and was directed toward my firewall settings. After verifying them, I tried once more. Still no joy.
Are there any other ideas?

Hi,
We have to look to iChat for some of this.
Previously iChat logged in on port 5190 to a server called login.oscar.aol.com (or slogin...... if you used SSL)
When iChat does Direct IMs (where you send pic or files in a Chat) it changes to a peer-to-peer connection still on port 5190 but on the UDP protocol (The login is using the TCP protocol).
It does the same (changing protocol) when doing Group chats (Chatrooms)
Since iChat 6 and the later Messages version the login was changed to port 443 with Messages also changing to the api.oscar.aol.com server.
However in Group chats and Direct IMs it still uses port 5190 and the UDP Protocol.
If you Firewall is On then you need to unlock it and check the Option button.
The Allow Signed Software option should be ticked.
IMAgent and iChat or Messages (depending on your app) should be in the list.
Stealth should not be used (it messes up Video and Audio only and Screen Sharing connections over AIM and Jabber)
Your router should also be allowing at least this two port 443 and 5190 and the two related Protocols (TCP for 443 and UDP for 5190) if stated.
Having a router doing UPnP should take care of this.
In The Preferences of the app > Accounts > Server Settings tab you also have the option in AIM login to use SSL to login.
Whilst in Messages the server name does not change you are logging into the server differently.
There maybe issues that turning Off SSL may get around (In iChat the Login Server name changes as it uses a different server)
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AIM TEXT chat room fails

I upgraded a user's G4 tower from 10.3.9 to 10.4.2 this week. Now he complains that, although his AOL buddie lists and two-way text chats are ok, he no longer can enter an AOL group chat room. All he gets is the error message "AIM Error: Could not request chatroom "roomname". (An AIM service error occurred. The server message was: Serv:RequestTimeout)".
It was working before the upgrade.
He's not interested in the audio or video features of iChat AV. He doesn't even have a microphone or a camera attached to his G4. But plain text chats should work.

Hi Ross,
Welcome to the Apple Discussion Pages.
If he studies the the complete goaim:"roomname" (should be listed at the bottom of the web browser when he hovers over the link) does it include a server name.
iChat does not seem to like these.
Example aim:GoChat?RoomName=Family+Chat&Exchange=5 from the Family and Home (Family Chat) link on the AIM pages
Ralph

Website chat room

i was on a website and i went to their chat room and could not login it said connection failed and i went to the help section the options or reasons said because of java version , and firewalls, but i still cant access it i have a vista home premium and i need to know did i install the wrong java or is their another solutionas to why i cant access the chat room

That's really a question for the administrators of the chat room. The problem would be specific to the particular program they use.
You can check your Java console (it's in either the browser or the Java plug-in, depending on what you're using) to look for error messages, though. Maybe it'll have some useful info, although the fix might be something that only the chat room admins can do.

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