Hi Paul,
Quote:> I'm fairly new to linux and to networking and I've put myself through a
> crash course in setting up a small network with two Mandrake machine and 2
> Ethernet cards.
> Nearly everthing has worked so far. Telnet, Ftp, IPMasqing (connection
> sharing) apache intranet server etc. etc. I just can't get talk to work.
> I've read the how-tos, at least as far as the bit when it starts talking
> about using talk to talk over the network and mine just won't. I either
> get, your party is not logged in or connection refused.
> Both machines have xinetd, talk & talk server installed.
Check to make sure that the "talk" server is actually enabled in your
/etc/xinetd.d/talk-server (or similar) file. It may be there but have a
"disable=yes" flag in it, which means that it isn't starting. Additionally,
you might also want to check to make sure that the hostname and domainname
actually resolve correctly as well. I know that the talk system can be a bit
sensitive about machine names being able to resolve into IP addresses.
Also check to make sure that you are not running a firewall which might be
blocking the ports that the talk daemon uses (517/518 with the UDP protocol).
See ya
Dean Thompson
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