Hi Folks, Maybe some of you can elucidate a Skype puzzle.
I have Skype on Win XP (v. 4.0.0.216) and on Linux (v. 2.0). I usually use the Win XP version because it works better.
As of yesterday, I had the same Skype name and password on both.
I hadn't used Skype for a couple of months, but yesterday evening started it up in Win XP and entered the password. It hung for several minutes, then came up with a message that it had failed to connect. I repeated this several times (thinking maybe Skype was clogged, or something). Same result.
And the same result with the Linux version ("P2P connection failed"). Repeatedly.
So I wondered if their might be a password problem, therefore logged in to www.skype.com using it, and got in OK.
Nevertheless I decided to reset the password anyway. I was sent a password token to log in to the secure site for doing this, and set about re-entering the old password. Got a message "Password too easy to guess" (also required numbers + letters, which it hadn't done before). So I chose a different password.
After that, I had no problems using the Win XP Skype with the new password, but when I tried Linux Skype with the new password it still failed to connect. Re-tested again this morning: Win XP Skype works, Linux Skype does not.
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'm aware that Skype can go real flaky at times (though not very often, in my experience), but the above strikes me as puzzling.
Any comments and suggestions welcome. With thanks, Ted.
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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.
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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