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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alexander King Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Are there any ntalk users?
Date: 4 May 1993 18:36:02 GMT
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Dave Burgess (burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil) wrote:
: Are there any folks out there that are familiar enough with 'talk' and 'ntalk'
: to be able to help me (and a couple of folks on the net) to get *talk working
: correctly?
: The problems are in the 'Checking for invitation' and 'Remote machine does
: not recognize you' sections...
Hi, I don't know if this is your problem, but I do know of talk problems in
general.
If I'm right, you are most likely trying to talk to people on Suns. Talk
between systems running SunOS (4.1) and systems running 4.3BSD doesn't work.
I've found that if you try to talk between these two systems, that it gets to
the "Checking for invitation on callers machine" and hangs there.
The other problem Is when trying to talk to VAXes. the talk daemon on vaxes
is compatible with 4.3, so you can't talk from vax to sun or the other way
around. If you talk from a NeXT or 386BSD to a vax, it will work. UNLESS the
party on the vax isn't logged on. Instead of the "Your party is not logged
on" message, you get "Remote machine does not recognize you."
Well, I don't know if this helps, but I know that all this is true.
Hope that this helped. Good Luck...Alex...
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