Did you take a look at Jabber.org? I think it may be what you are looking for. John On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Darren R. Weber wrote:
Ahh, you weren't that specific in your message. I didn't know it had to be independant of an outside server. You just said office environment. My office, like many, are on a network tied to the internet. The idea of using talk clients would still work though. With that you just connect machine to machine. I see someone else also responded with something called Jabber. Haven't heard of that but you might check it. I looked on freshmeat.net and there are many clients, but I didn't see anything for both windows and Linux. You might search for something written in Java. Just a thought.
Good Luck.
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Anurag Jalan wrote:
HI Darren,
Do i need to install any server software on the Linux box ? Eg, how would i use ICQ wityhout a centralised local server .............?
Thanks Anurag
------------ Darren R. Weber" wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Anurag Jalan wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any instant messaging software that'd allow the Linux box as well as the Win98 nodes to exchange text messages in an office environment ... ? I have configured intra-office web based email for my users, but no one seems to be using it :-(
PS I run Samba as well as Apache on the Linux box...
Any suggestions would be welcome...
Anurag
Sure ICQ on your win boxes and LICQ or KICQ on your linux machines. There are also clones available for the AOL Instant Messanger, or you could step back to something simple like talk clients. Wintalk would work for windows and there are talk clients for linux usually available with the distrobutions.
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