From: pham@px1.stfx.ca (Hai Pham) Subject: Getting talkd to work with Suns Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 20:08:19 GMT
Hello fellow Linux Hacks,
I've been trying to get talk to work with machines running SunOS for a
while without any success, and I was wondering if anyone could give me
some hints. With regular talk included with SLS 1.03, it would just sit
at 'Checking for invitation...' if I try to initiate a talk session with a
remote user on a Sun. If I switch to ytalk, I can initiate the request,
but the remote user can't answer (they would then get stuck at the
'Checking for inviation...'). This implies of course, that the remote
users on a Sun machine can't initiate a talk request to me at all.
Has anyone managed to solve this annoying problem? As far as I can tell,
the problem comes from some funny talk protocol that Sun uses, but no one
else does. (Talk is working fine with other machines running Ultrix, Aix
and Linux.)
One other problem that I've found almost as annoying is that fingerd seems
to be broken. If I'm not logged into my machine and someone fingers me,
it would come up and say that I've never logged in. Any hints? (I've
tried compiling gnufinger, but I didn't get very far, and I haven't the
time to try to port it properly.)
Any help/hints would be greatly appreciated!
thanks,
hai
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