Sorry to post two different replies. What protocol(s) do(es) the windows client your son uses and the service he's trying to connect to speak? Ie. are you sure you're using a client that can actually speak to that service?
Do you have any interesting firewalling going on that might be getting in the way? -CMP On 10/12/06, Joseph Mack NA3T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At home my son can't get his windows instant message client to connect to someplace he's setup an account with (he's immediately disconnected). So I thought I'd set up a linux irc server and linux client at home to find out what was wrong. I have no idea what I'm doing except to find a server/client pair and see if I can get them working. For the server I'm using ircd-hybrid-7.2.2. It's up and (at least according to netstat) listening on port 6667. I set the IP, port, name string of server and a few other obvious things (including allowing users [EMAIL PROTECTED]/24 - my network) in ircd.conf On the server (or another linux machine on the network) I do #telnet server_IP 6667 telnet feeds me some reasonable looking prompts (which I don't know how to reply to) and about a minute later the server closes with "Registration timed out". netstat shows the telnet client connecting. Next I compiled up gaim-1.5.0 and ran gaim. I get a welcome screen and am asked for protocol, username and passwd. Here I'm getting into trouble. Does the server have the username and passwd? The gaim documentation says to get an account with the people running the server. If so I can't see any place in ircd.conf for username passwd (other than the [EMAIL PROTECTED]/24 in ircd.conf). So at the gaim end I make up a user name [EMAIL PROTECTED] and give myself a passwd (joe). I find that I can only set the server for the protocol "Jabber" - presumably the servers are fixed for the other protocols. I find a ~/.gaim/accounts.xml file with the wrong port which I change to 6667. I try to connect to the ircd server with gaim, to find I'm immediately disconnected, with a notice about a xml parse error in the GUI. netstat on the server shows no sign of a connection (eg FIN_WAIT). Presumably I haven't got as far as making a connection from the client box. I then run `gaim --debug` to find that gaim can't open pounces.xml and status.xml (there is no pounces.xml or status.xml in the gaim build tree). There are no xml parse errors shown in the debug output. However the gaim client seems to be getting messages back from the server - the same prompts I got with the telnet client. I'm stuck. The gaim documention isn't helpful here. Any pointers from here? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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