LAN

[Etan Reisner]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:52:57AM -0700, Khurram Naseem wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I am looking for a way to have instant messaging and
> file transfer among users of a small LAN. Computers
> are Linux and Windows.
>
> I've seen there is Pidgin for windows too, so I wonder
> if there is a protocol I can use, easy to set up, so
> all the users can talk to themselves and share files,
> but just within the LAN, not connecting to instant
> messaging services.
>
> Any help on this will be much appreciated.

As suggested setting up an internal XMPP server would be a solution,
another solution would be to use Bonjour, which is a serverless LAN chat
protocol which pidgin supports.

    -Etan