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Hi:
I have a new Mac Mini with the latest versions of Tiger and iChat. My internal firewall is disabled. I have a mac.com address and am trying to video chat with an AIM user on Windows (she has an AIM.com address). The Windows user has her firewall (both internal and router) disabled and all the appropriate ports opened.
I see that many, many others are having the same problem that I am having. Specifically, that when I initiate a video chat and the AIM user accepts, we receive an error message stating that I (the person what iniated the video chat in the first place) "did not respond."
However...I am able to connect via video chat with the test address [email protected] and the video (in both directions) works perfectly.
Given this, I have two questions:
1. Since I can successfully connect with [email protected], can I assume that everything from my side (including router ports) are properly working?
2. Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?
Thanks.
Sal

Hi SAL,
Welcome to the Apple Discussion Pages.
I notice that you Add @aim.com to the AIM names.
Did you do this in iChat as it is not needed. Actually adding the @mac.com is also not needed when adding an .mac users name.
Has the PC user worked through this info ? They need to do the "Tuning" at least from the first yellow box. and set up their XP firewall from the second.
I have seen people report that they have problems if the XP firewall is turned Off completely. (not connect)
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