Pidgin oddity

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu at both home & office, 11.04 at home & 10.10 at office.
> Pidgin on both machines, used to work fine in both places.
> One at home still does.
>
> The one at the office connects to Google chat just fine, but
> for my Hotmail/MSN account it gives:
>
> 1 account was disabled because you signed on from another location:
>
> Neither clicking on "re-enable" down near that message nor
> going up to the menus and choosing accounts->re-enable
> fixes this. Nor does restarting either Pidgin or the machine.
>
> The home machine is powered off before I leave for work;
> there is no active connection there.

Have you tried to change your MSN password?

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
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