On 19-Mar-10 12:49:34, Richard Lewis wrote:
At Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:45:17 -0000 (GMT), (Ted Harding) wrote:
One remaining issue might be that the Linux Skype version (2.0) may now be too old to be acceptable to Skype, though that would be surprising.
I agree it would be bad form for Skype to deprecate a version of their software by introducing some kind of protocol incompatibility. But I would also argue that it's worth doing the test. Skype are now peddling a "2.1 Beta" version of the Linux client. If your problem is solved by using this, it's a good indication that the problem was related to your client version.
BTW, I seem to be running Skype 2.0.0.72 (Debian unstable, Qt v. 4.5.3-4) on Linux without problems.
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Thanks, Richard. Funnily enough, receiving your reply prompted me to try it again. This time it worked! (Along with my test call assisted by the Echo Girl). Using the new password of course.
Since I have not touched it since changing my password on Wednesday evening (and trying yet again to test it yesterday morning without success) I can only assume that for some reason there has been a delay in "implementing" the new password. Though quite how this may be I don't understand, since it worked fine first time (Wed eve) on Win XP Skype.
Maybe something has to get stored locally? I dunno! But then, in my experience, from time to time Skype can come up with really original "funnies"!
Another thing might be that this instance of Linux Skype is in a Debian running in a VM (VMWare) with host OS Win XP, so there could be a possible issue with the network bridge. Not that I have any problems whatever with any other kind of internet access.
[And, before anyone comes round to push something through my letterbox for admitting to the above: I kept it that way on this machine in order to keep using Windows Skype, since at least the then version of Linux Skype was dreadful. Win Skype has consistently been excellent.]
Ted.
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