problem starting conversation from PC to Mac with Bonjour

[Daniel Atallah]

2008/7/15 Panagiotis Spiliotis <pspiliotis at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
> I recently installed the latest version of pidgin on a windows PC running XP
> and and a mac running Leopard 10.5.
> Using Bonjour on both I successully created an account on each computer.
>
> The problem is that the PC can't start a conversation with the mac although
> the other around works fine: If the mac starts a conversation it shows up
> correctly on the PC and the two computers exchange messages correctly.
>
> The message I get from the PC is "Unable to send the message, the
> conversation couldn't be started".
>
> I tried installing the latest version of Java and disabled the firewall but
> it' didn't fix the problem.
> I also looked into the bug tickets and found
>
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2022
>
> which is closed. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to solve this?
>
> thank you in advance for your time and effort, I really appreciate the work
> you have done so far with  the development of pidgin :-)

Which specific version of Pidgin are you using?  What does the Debug
Log (http://d.pidgin.im/wiki/TipsForBugReports) say when it isn't
working right?

-D