Hi! I am experimenting a bit with external player - I would love to just download and install a windows build of GNU Backgammon and then connect to an external player hosted on a WSL based linux on the very same hardware.
- So I've downloaded and installed GNU Backgammon for windows. - I have then installed GNU Backgammon on the WSL based Ubuntu 24.04 with apt. (sudo apt install gnubg) - Started gnubg on the Linux: gnubg -t - started the external player: external 127.0.0.1 9876 - Switching back to the GUI gnubg installation on Windows and opening Setting->Players. Clicking the External player radio button and typing in " 127.0.0.1:9876 So, now I was hoping that it would work out of the box - however, I get the error message in the Windows based GUI installation. It says: "Windows socket error (127.0.0.1:9876): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it." Is this supposed to work, or is it blocked by a setting on my computer? Or is an incompatibility due to the implementation using Winsock on the GUI installation and unix sockets on the WSL? -Øystein
