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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!lobster.sid.mcet.edu!lobster.sid.mcet.edu!johnj From: johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Are there any ntalk users? Date: 7 May 1993 11:39:13 GMT Organization: MCET - Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1sdhp2$j35@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> References: <1s6d2iINNlmg@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lobster.sid.mcet.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Alexander King Tang (altitude@css.itd.umich.edu) wrote: : 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. One way that I've heard people fix this is to throw the talk that Sun's come and replace it with the talk that can be found in the Berkeley Net2 stuff. You can get it from ftp.uu.net. -John