intranet chat between fedora and windows

[sikage]

Hi

In our network have a number of windows machines and one fedora. Currently the windows machines chat using ichat.exe
http://www.liutilities.com/products/...library/ichat/
which is an Intranet Chat software installed on all machines and using TCP/IP. My question is how can i connect to this windows machines for chat from my fedora (version 12) Which software should I install?please help

Thanks in avance
skg

[KenJackson]

I don't use chat, but I use Fedora, so I entered this command in a bash shell:

yum search chat | grep client

I got 15 results: xchat, epic, coccinella, ekg2, ggz-gtk-client, gyachi, kmess, konversation, mcabber, naim, ninja, psi, sugar-chat, talk and weechat.

Konversation is part of the KDE project, so it's likely to be mature and complete (and it may be already installed on your system).

Any of them can be installed immediately with this command (as root), replacing PACKAGE with the package name:

yum install PACKAGE

Or, any user can get a little more information, including a web url with this command:

yum info PACKAGE

[sikage]

Hi

Thanks for your reply..My requirement is to connect and chat to other windows machines on the network, in each of them ichat.exe that uses tcp/ip is installed. So clearly there is no server in the network..Can I do this with any of the above packages?

skg

[KenJackson]

Originally Posted by sikage

Can I do this with any of the above packages?

As I say, I don't use chat, so I don't know what capabilities the packages have.

But one of the many wonderful things about GNU/Linux is that you have the freedom and ability to try software painlessly and easily. So try this sequence:

1. Pick a package
2. Install it (with yum as shown above)
3. Try it
4. If it doesn't meet your needs, repeat.

(You can remove packages with yum remove PACKAGE)