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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" id="prob-conn-name" xml:lang="te">
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<link type="guide" xref="prob-conn"/>
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<link type="guide" xref="irc-manage#problems"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="account-irc"/>
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<title type="link" role="error-msg">“Name in use”</title>
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An error message which says “<gui>Name in use</gui>” appears in the main window.
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<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-07-26" status="draft"/>
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<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-14" status="review"/>
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<revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.3" date="2010-02-16" status="review"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.4" date="2011-12-18" status="review"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Milo Casagrande</name>
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<email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
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<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
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<title>I get a message that says “Name in use”</title>
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This kind of error happens when you try to connect to your IRC account and
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you are using a nickname that is already being used by someone else on that particular
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Click the <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/gtk-edit.png">edit</media>
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icon in the error message.
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In the <gui>Nickname</gui> text box, type a new nickname.
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If you have registered that nickname within the network you are using,
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set the password for that nickname. For more information,
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see <link xref="irc-nick-password"/>.
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Switch the account off, and then switch it on to try to reconnect to the