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- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: UUCP and SLIP question
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 01:57:02 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Lines: 47
- Message-ID: <1i2speINNciv@ni.umd.edu>
- References: <1992Dec31.41838.27476@ms.uky.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec31.41838.27476@ms.uky.edu> wayne@acus1.cc.uky.edu (wayne beech) writes:
-
-
- >I have a couple of problems that have come up since I have started running
- >SLIP at home. I am connecting from my home machine (NeXTstation Color
- >running 3.0) to a SLIP capable terminal server using TransSys Dial-Up IP
- >Software - version 920904 on my NeXT. Things like telnet, rlogin, finger,
- >talk, etc. work just fine. First problem, when I log into another NeXT
- >and try to -NXHost to my home machine I see the modem lights flash a few
- >times and then get the message:
- >
- >DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host home
- >
- >for no apparent reason ( i have public windower server set).
-
- You'll find that even if you do get this problem solved, its much too
- painful to run an application -NXHost'ed across a SLIP connection. This has
- been my experience.
-
- > Second
- >problem, I had a uucp link set up that worked just fine via a modem.
- >Having SLIP, I decided to switch the uucp link to TCP. When I issue the
- >command uucico -r1 -x9 -sacus1 I get the messages:
- >
- >finds (acus1) called
- >getto: call no. acus1.cc.uky.edu for sys acus1
- >Using TCP to call
- >bsdtcpopn host acus1.cc.uky.edu, port 540
- >TCP CLOSE called
- >closed fd 5
- >tcpopen failed: errno 61
- >root acus1 (12/30-23:05-287) FAILED (Connection refused)
- >root acus1 (12/30-23:05-287) FAILED (call to acus1 )
- >
- >Noticing errno 61 I tried to telnet straight to port 540 and sure enough
- >my connection was refused...I checked and I can telnet to port 540 on
- >most other Unix machines but anytime I go to a NeXT the connection is
- >refused.
-
- Look in /etc/inetd.conf, and uncomment the line:
-
- #uucp stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/uucpd uucpd
-
- and either restart or send a HUP signal to the /etc/inetd process.
-
- louie
-
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