Pidgin oddity

[Sandy Harris]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Not in several months. Are you suggesting that changing it
on the office system might make the problem go away?