My answer is underbelow : PLease keep helping me. This talk program bother me so much. ====
I'm afraid I have very little experience with talk, but there are two places I'd check first. First, since you're running talkd through tcp wrappers, could it be that you have some entry in /etc/hosts.deny that blocks other machines on the talkd port?
PS>This is my "/etc/hosts.deny" : psubroto:/etc # cat hosts.deny # /etc/hosts.deny # See `man tcpd� and `man 5 hosts_access� as well as /etc/hosts.allow # for a detailed description. #http-rman : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL psubroto:/etc # " and this is my "/etc/hosts.allow" : " ifirdaus:/etc # cat hosts.deny # /etc/hosts.deny # See `man tcpd� and `man 5 hosts_access� as well as /etc/hosts.allow # for a detailed description. #http-rman : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL psubroto:/etc # cat hosts.allow # See tcpd(8) and hosts_access(5) for a description. ALL EXCEPT in.fingerd, in.identd : ALL : spawn (safe_finger -l @%h 2>&1| \ /bin/mail -s "%d-%h %u" root) & psubroto:/etc # " Second, are you running
any sort of firewalls on those machines that would block the connection?
PS>I even have removed my SuSEfirewall2 on each station except the gateway computer (proxy).
If all else fails, you could change the entry in inetd.conf so you run talkd with "in.talkd -d". Then you'll get debugging messages in /var/log/talkd.log
PS>I didn't find this log file after retry to "talk" from "scrtry" machine to my machine ("psubroto"). regards, Prabu. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com