I have been trying with the help of my IS guys to hook up to an 8.0 server with Sametime. All the configs in the preferences look OK, and it’s not my account as the IS guy, who is able to log into Sametime from his 8.0 PC, can’t log in from my client either. He has no trouble from Notes 8.0 Basic on XP, and his colleague is using 8.0 Standard on PC as well.
The message I get is:
Unable to access Sametime. Please try again later.
Any suggestions? Anyone out there who has this working on OS X?
Subject: re: OSX - can’t login
It’s likely not an OSX issue and more of an issue trying to get a 8.5 beta client to talk to an 8.0 server.
Basically, what you have to do is edit the sametime.ini and add a line that says:
VPS_ALLOWED_LOGIN_TYPES=
And after that, enter the client build codes of every sametime client in the organization. For the 8.5 beta code is 1333.
The problem is that when the sametime client initializes the connection to the server, it identifies itself, and if it’s using a build that’s unfamiliar to the server, the server drops the connection.
Since there’s no way for an 8.0 server to know what the build code for the next revision is, it needs to be specified manually.
But, your admin needs to be careful. In my experience, the VPS_ALLOWED_LOGIN_TYPES= line tells the server to allow login from those clients as well as to ONLY allow logins from those clients. So again, the line needs to include the codes from every version of sametime being used in the organization.
The good news is that once the server is upgraded to the same version as your clients, you can eliminate the line completely.