google talk question

[Etan Reisner]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:03:34PM +0200, =RiCo= wrote:
> hello,
>
> i have been using pidgin at home to connect to google talk
> when i take my notebook to work pidgin does not connect
> but at work google talk itself works fine, the network admin says that
> there is no program firewall, so it shouldnt be getting blocked
> because it is an unknown program... he may be mistaken, but is there
> anything else that it could be?
> i get the "unkown error" message when connection fails.
>
> thanks
> sambarino

If you have firewall software running on your work machine that may be the
problem, this is discussed in our FAQ a little bit, if you get the debug
window (Help->Debug Window) output of the connection in pidgin failing
that might tell us a little more about what is happening.

    -Etan