hi william... it might be an issue with talk... when i do a 'talk test' from one of my term windows when i'm logged in as 'root' a get a connection err msg.. -bruce -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 12:05 PM To: CentOS General List Subject: Re: [CentOS] talking to users on on other boxes within my network... On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 10:21 -0700, bruce wrote: > hi... > > is there a way to talk to users on other machines within my network? > > the 'talk' function apparently only works with users on the same box.. I don't think that is correct. Two reasons: man page shows synopsis and text that tends to indicate it will talk across machines; second I got a nice connection refused message when I tried it here. I expected that message. Do you have more details about your (apparent?) failure to succeed? Commands tried, config files altered, etc.? > > -bruce > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill