[SOLVED] Persistent chatroom

[pebcomputing]

I'm here in the dark with greenrenault. Pidgin does not seem to let me list current rooms, nor add rooms (that button's greyed out) even logged in to pidgin as the zimbra administrator. I haven't found any clear docs on how to control conf. rooms server side either.

Help?

By the way, is there ever going to be any way inside the zimbra webclient to access these conf. rooms (yes, i read the bug, but it's unclear if this is intended to be "fixed" or not), and is there or will there ever be a way to multi-chat or broadcast-message without conference rooms??

~~~~~~UPDATE~~~~~~
Pidgin 2.5.4 did not work as mentioned above, however Spark 2.5.8 client accessed and created a new conference room as per the instructions earlier in the thread perfectly. Perhaps a newer version of Pidgin is required?? This only seems to work for me, however, on zimbra 6.+ and while logged in to Spark as a zimbra administrator. Furthermore, it seems to only work using the zimbra root "server" (conference.zserver.com), not a mere zimbra "domain" (conference.zdomain.com).

[rebroken]

Has anyone managed to connect to a persistent chatroom using Adium? If so, can they enlighten me on the procedure?

Thanks, Andy

[kapshure]

I am with a few other commenter's here:

a) does the conference room need to be created on the server side first?
b) I have tried using the Spark client and Adium to connect to the server and both apps give me incorrect username/password error messages. I am using my standard user account and the Zimbra admin account and I get the same thing.

if group chat is turned on by default, how do I connect to this group chat from the web client/ZWC?

and I've read the Zimbra Wiki's for each Adium and Spark posting, and I've seen the links to the bugs listed by mmorse, but I still can't get this to connect

Thanks for any help

[ArcaneMagus]

To create a conference room you simply join a conference that doesn't exist, remember that the "server" is conference.domain.com (even if that doesn't exist in DNS).

If you had read the thread or looked at the bugs you would have seen that the conference / group chat is not available in the web client. Support for this is Bug 31738 - Add ui for conference rooms (chat room).

Do you have a valid SRV record setup? If not are you manually specifying the server, port, and ssl settings correctly?