Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 16:00:01 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: talk not connecting to remote machines. Message-ID: <199604052300.QAA20488@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <jacs-9603052210.AA00014499@hawk.gnome.co.uk> References: <jacs-9603052210.AA00014499@hawk.gnome.co.uk>
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> I am not sure if this a fault with all versions of FreeBSD but the > "talk" prog only seems to work when connecting to local users. It works fine for me. > If you either try to initiate or respond to a talk session on a remote > machine the remote machine does not respond. Are the remote machines Suns? If so, then it won't work because Sun has used (and continues to use) a *very* old version of talk which doesn't work on anything but Suns. They assume that all the world is a Sun.... Nate
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