Windows Messenger v5 not connecting to Exchange2K

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Michael Lahrkamp

This is a repost in hopes that someone can help.

We have a corporate lan with Win2K servers and pro
clients and IM installed on Exchange 2K. Everything works
well. We set up a single computer to evaluate WinXP,
loaded up the required IM version and get the following
error when attempting to connect to the Exchange 2K IM
server: "SOCKS 5 proxy authentication failed. Check the
SOCKS 5 setting for User name and Password on the
Connection tab." We've tried every possible combination
for our network with no success. I'm suspecting that
Exchange needs to know that there's an XP client which is
probably trying to connect in a new way. Outlook had a
similar problem that was corrected with some registry
settings.

I should also point out that this XP client successfully
connects to a .NET Passport Account - just the inhouse
Exchange IM has the problem.

Looking for any suggestions.

Thanks.
Mike
 
Thanks for the suggestion. We have tried turning it off.
We've tried every possible combination on the Connection
tab and it always results in the same error message. I
suspect that there's gonna be a registry adjustment/entry
that's needed so that Exchange 2K IM will recognize this
XP client (similar to the Outlook issue that occurs with
this setup). Any other thoughts would be greatly
appreciated!

Mike

-----Original Message-----
Greetings Michael,

Just to double-check, have you gone into the main
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Windows Messenger window, click the Tools
menu, then Options, then Connection tab and make sure
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that the proxy setting is set to off?
 
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