Talk problem

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I have never been able to get talk to work. I always get a repeating
[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
message.

I have tried connecting locally by doing...
[me:~] me% talk me ttyp2
[root:~] root% talk me ttyp2
[me:~] me% talk root ttyp2
And remotely with a friend who has red had linux.

I have been searching both here and at search engines but still have had no luck. Currently I have 10.2.1 installed. I have not installed anything like Fink if this makes a difference.

I have heard this problem can be caused by your network/internet setup so my ISP is AOL (bleah!) if that helps.

Any help would be appreciated!
 
check your /etc/inetd.conf file.
make sure that the ntalk line is not commented out.

If you don't know how to do this...
open up a terminal and type the following

sudo vi /etc/inetd.conf
(enter password)
/ntalk
h
x
ZZ


you should be money after that.
-Willis
 
ah I see, I had read about that change in another post but did not think it was relate because it was ntalk since there are ntalk and otalk commands as well as talk.

As a follow up question, when I am not connected to the internet and I try to talk to users on my computer I get the following response:
[main:~] main% talk main ttyp2
talk: main.local.: Unknown host

Is this something else I have to configure?
Thanks
 
after a couple of hours of brainstorm, i finaly understand how talk works ...
so if your xinetd.d is configured with ntalk, the only thing you have to do is allow mesg from others !
in you shell profile add :
mesg y
 
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