IChat and .Mac account and AIM and .Mac account...
Hello.
Well I'm using iChat or Adium with my .Mac account, for text chat only (sometimes for video or audio but it's not my wish for this).
So, at work, we have an internal application that is based I think on AIM, and I can log myself with a AIM account (I created one for tests). But when I put my .mac email with @mac.com it's not working, and without it is. But it seems it's not the same account. Do we have two accounts ?
How to log in with AIM on Windows to use my .Mac account, so my friends can text me on the PC too ?? Is that possible ?
Thanks for your help.
Hi Sebastien,
This Sametime ?
I have not heard of this and that web site does not seem to indicate it is an AIM client even though the info you posted says that it.
I would look at the Support on that site and see if it is any help.
There is a link from the Apple .mac list to the AIM name list but this might not be accessible to a third party app like this.
Most of the other third party apps insist you have an AIM name first whether it is for a Mac (Proteus, AdiumX)or a PC (Trillian).
AIM Express is a Java app that will work on PC or Mac.
This page says that it is AIM or AOL names only.
Ralph
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AS to the Name displayed.
This is a sort of threefold thing.
iChat first.
At the to of the Buddy list it will show either your "Real Name" as it is in the Address Book at the My Card (Head and Shoulders icon) or the Screen Name you are using (this will be all lower case and No spaces).
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9:45 PM Wednesday; April 1, 2009 -
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You can't.
Messages - the replacement for iChat in Mountain Lion and beyond will do Screen Sharing but only to the accounts it did in iChat 5 and 6 (actually it includes iChat 4 as well)
That is to say in earlier version of iChat you could login to AIM and Jabber servers as well as enabling the Bonjour option to chat on your LAN.
All these will do Video and Audio only chats which in turn means they will Screen Share.
At iChat 6 an Yahoo option was added but it can only Text chat (it can't even send Files or Pics)
This means only the Internet able accounts that login in to AIM or to a Jabber server can Video and therefore Screen Share.
The iMessages account will Invoke FaceTime if you use the Video icon during text chat. (I.e. it is not Video inside the app like the AIM or Jabber accounts can do)
NOTE.
AIM includes Apple Issued Apple ID as Valid AIM Screen Names.
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Hi,
I still have you in my Buddy list.
Whereas you were showing just plain "Norma" you are now showing "Norma Howe" in Capital Letters.
The only way I know to achieve that at my end is to View any Display Name that was set up or Add those "First Name, Last Name" Details to my address Book and list your Screen Name against them.
IF the AIM Settings Display Name items does not List NORMA HOWE and in fact lists something else the only thing I can think of is another App allows the Display name to be set from there and this is overriding the AIM Setting info.
I fired up an old version of AIM for Mac (version 4.7 from 2005) on my G4 computer running Leopard.
This Identifies Buddies that have entered Display Names (puts them in the Quotes as in "NORMA HOWE")
In the Preferences of this version of AIM for Mac it has a Sign On tab.
This has a box to enter how you show up (i.e. the Display Name) This version hints at adding Capitalisation and Spaces to your Screen Name.
Actually when I tried to change it to anything this version refused to let me.
So I changed my regular Name to "Ralph Johns r"
This however does not change the AIM settings page
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This would suggest that if the AIM setting page does not have this info then it is an AIM app somewhere.
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Hi Paul,
Welcome to the Apple Discussion Pages.
Like the others who have poste I would guess first at entering the account name wrong.
http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page6.html see the "What you need to do" section.
You have to select whether a Buddy is a .Mac name or an AIM one, and choose the Accont type accordingly.
In neither case do you need to add an @mac or any other suffix.
Ralph -
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