Thanks..
got it working...ssh is enabled...but i didn't want to have to login to the other mahchine to talk..should be able to do it from one host to another.
I think I just needed to set the terminal type.
thanks for your help. I very much appreciate it.
Colleen
Okay..this is weird.
I just tried talking on my local machine between two different users.
I opened two terminal window and logged in as jim on 2nd terminal. Then from the first terminal i typed
talk jim.
In jim's window, the talk requests comes up no problem
when I (jim) tries...
Can't get talk command to work from command line. Keep getting message "waiting for invitation on caller's machine"
I already uncommented
ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/tcpd ntalk
in inetd.conf and rebooted to start the talk daemon...to no avail...