Windows Ident

There are a number of different IRC clients for the Windows platform, some of which have inbuilt Ident support and some of which do not. Other than 16-bit versions of mIRC, all clients are assumed to be written for 32-bit versions of Windows (95,98, NT, ME, 2000, XP).

While we provide this information as a service to our users, ChatX cannot offer support with the installation or configuration of these packages. All requests for support must be directed to the appropriate vendor.

mIRC 16 & 32 bit versions

mIRC has a built in ident server which can be configured from within the client as follows :

Open mIRC
Click on the FILE menu then select OPTIONS.
Click on the + sign beside CONNECT in the left hand pane of the options window.
Click on Identd
In the right hand pane, tick 'Enable Ident Server', 'Show Ident Requests' & 'Enable Only When Connecting'
Fill in the User ID box with a User ID of your choice.
- WARNING - DO NOT ENTER A USER ID OF ROOT - you WILL be disconnected from ChatX if you do.
Click OK to store your changes.

When you are finished, it should look like this (with your User ID in the correct box of course):