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1. Just tried this and it does not appear to working yet. Did I just jump the gun in trying this?

   Comment by Tim — January 20, 2007 #

2. Yahoo! messenger has a big bug in it…for some reason, which i can’t get an answer for, 8.1 will not install on many XP computers… the problem is all thru your user help pages.. XML error.. all the resolved issues seem to be go offsite & download from another server or download an older version. the error begins in the installation… XML parser error.. cannot find xxxx line number in one of the yahoo DLL’s … can’t remember the exact wording… install crashes at 95% but will continue after you acknowledge the error… and it finishes… but!!!!… when you start messenger it faults… CoCreateInstance in XML parser… i have tried everything i know…. i have XP SP2 … turn off firewalls, anti-virus & spyware… typical install… custom install…. old version… upgraded to ie7 too….. can you tell me what is going on? i think it an incompatablity between SP2 & 8.1 or some switch set in SP2.. HELP!!!!!! i really don’t think any of the issues on the help sites have been resolved… they probably gave up & went to MSN!@!

   Comment by MSD — January 20, 2007 #

3. Tim - You may need to completely exit out of Messenger and sign back in a couple of times before you’ll see the Lotus Sametime option in your menu. Thanks,

   Sarah Bacon

   Comment by Administrator — January 22, 2007 #

4. […] So what’s a person who has to deal with a large, previously closed company that doesn’t want to use your IM client of choice? Well, if they’re running Lotus and you’re running Y!IM, you use your client of choice. […]

   Pingback by Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day » Blog Archive » Of Messengers and Monoliths — January 22, 2007 #

5. Folks, Use Y!IM with Lotus ST is great, but I’d like to use Lotus ST with Y!IM, in details, the client still Lotus ST, but the connection are on both servers (Y!IM and Lotus ST) this is the better way to connect Y!IM contacts, without install anything in computer that already has ST as official IM software, but witch server I have to use to connect to Y!IM ?

   Comment by Roder — January 24, 2007 #

6. Hi Roder - Yes, this is a 2-way interoperability agreement, so Sametime users should be able to add Yahoo! friends to their contact list. Check with your company’s Sametime administrator to find out how to add Yahoo! friends. Yahoo! interop may not be enabled at your company and if it’s not, you should ask your Sametime administrator to set up Yahoo! interop. Thanks,

   Sarah Bacon

   Comment by Administrator — January 24, 2007 #

7. I can not add any sametime contact.
   I always get the error: .is not a valid Lotus sametime ID.
   But I add the ID I see in sametime!!!

   Comment by Alessandro — January 26, 2007 #

8. Alessandro, probably the problem is the format of your address?

   In particular, I got it to work, but at first I was using an email address like you@place.org,but the real address was like:

   YOU/PL/PLACENN

   No @ at all!

   Comment by Jeff — January 26, 2007 #

9. Ooops, spoke too soon, the actual request to Add the user eventually timed out.

   But I think Lotus Sametime names are of the form:

   Elva Pixton/Support/CTI

   Comment by Jeff — January 26, 2007 #

10. Is anyone able to enter a sametime ID and send a message. I cannot do it. I tried the suggestions above and it still doesn’t work. Please help. Thanks

    Comment by Lori — February 13, 2007 #

11. Is there any plan so far to interoperate Yahoo! Messenger with Google Talk?

    Comment by Dave — February 20, 2007 #

12. I am unable to add Lotus sametime users even with the above suggestion. I tried adding with space between names as it comes in lotus notes) but it is giving me an error stating that it is not a valid id. Please help.

    Comment by Riya Agarwal — February 23, 2007 #

13. I cant get it to work at all, can anyone help ?

    Comment by Neil — March 8, 2007 #

14. Does this require the sametime server be setup to allow yahoo? Pictures and directions would be nice - it doesn’t seem to be as straightforward as everyone thinks.

    Comment by qtrolazyg — March 14, 2007 #

15. Hi, I also have this problem, I suspect it’s down to a server problem so where does this need to be entered?

    //Martin

    Comment by McGeek — March 29, 2007 #

16. Hello Sarah and everyone.. I am experiencing the same problem, getting the same error message that the ID is invalid. Is there anything else that should be configured aside from the other end’s yahoo interop?

    Comment by iska — May 22, 2007 #

17. October now, and I have not seen any indication that this is possible. Does anyone have a single positive example of adding a sametime user to yahoo, or a yahoo user to sametime? specifically to IBMers

    Comment by Bshoemate — October 17, 2007 #

18. Shall I consider this as a hoxxxxx since no one can use the SameTime ID to add to Yahoo..

    Comment by Sree — November 2, 2007 #

19. Just read on Internal IBM site that this interoperability is still in progress. There is a limited 500 user testing in progress. May be ready in January

    Comment by Mrcdeo — November 10, 2007 #

20. Any resolution on using sametime ID on Yahoo IM so far? I am not able to add.

    Comment by Arun — February 26, 2008 #

21. Tried all the options listed above to add Lotus Sametime ID’s.
    And its way past Jan 2008, but still no luck.
    Anyone else been able to do it so far?

    Comment by Kevin — April 20, 2008 #

22. Yeah just tried again.. no luck.. sounds like BS to me!

    Comment by Capri — May 8, 2008 #

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