Topic: E-smith and MSN

[Sorin Girbovan]

Hello

I have E-Smith installed at home on a small lan with 4 pc’s. My E-Smith server is version 4.01 and I use it to share my cable modem.  All the known services (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo IM,) are working fine with one exception.
When I try to speak  from PC to PC using MSN it’s working only in my lan. We are not  able to talk with other users on the Internet. I’m sure that it is something related to E-Smith and the way it is translating the IP addresses.

I have to mention that E-Smith is my first linux experience and I like it.

If someone has any resolutions to my above problem, your input would greatly be appreciated.

[Ross]

Hi Sorin,

The problem you're encountering is due to a design flaw in MSN Messenger, which is seeking an ident response even though it would contain no useful information. You can install a module to get around the problem, but note that this feature will be included in e-smith 4.1, currently in beta. Please see this thread:

http://www.e-smith.org/phorum3.2.11/www.e-smith.com/read.php?f=1&i=214&t=214

[Ross]

Make that:

http://www.e-smith.org/phorum3.2.11/www.e-smith.com/read.php?f=1&i=214&t=214

[Sorin Girbovan]

Thank you Ross for the answer.
I will download this week the version 4.1 B3 and I will put it to test.
For instance I believe you have a simple and great product.

[Luc Fortin]

I was having the same problem.  Have since installed 4.1rc5 which installed ip_masq_icq-0.56-6.  When tring to establish a voice connection in MSN, It just sits there and does nothing.  Is there anything else ?

[Sorin Girbovan]

Try this page: http://212.120.117.225/howto/howto_make_netmeeting_work.htm
MSN is not working (voice from PC to PC) but netmeeting is working just fine.
Follow the instructions.

[Charlie Brady]

Sorin Girbovan wrote:
 
> Try this page:
> http://212.120.117.225/howto/howto_make_netmeeting_work.htm
> MSN is not working (voice from PC to PC) but netmeeting is
> working just fine.
> Follow the instructions.

The new 4.1 release of e-smith includes the ip_masq_h323 module, so another option is just to upgrade to that version.

Regards

Charlie

[Luc Fortin]

I am running 4.1rc5 (plan to upgrade to 4.1.1 this week) and therefore have the ip_masq_h323 module installed.  When attempting voice communication over msn, it just sits there with "Trying to connect to myBuddy's computer..."

#rpm -qa |grep ip_masq
ip_masq_h323-1.0beta-5
ip_masq_icq-0.56-6
#
#lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
appletalk-fixed        20960  12  (autoclean)
ip_masq_vdolive         1376   0  (unused)
ip_masq_raudio          3008   0  (unused)
ip_masq_quake           1392   0  (unused)
ip_masq_irc             1632   0  (unused)
ip_masq_icq            10144   0  (unused)
ip_masq_h323            3600   0  (unused)
ip_masq_ftp             4256   0  (unused)
ip_masq_cuseeme         1120   0  (unused)
ne2k-pci                4688   2  (autoclean)
8390                    6080   0  (autoclean) [ne2k-pci]
# modprobe ip_masq_icq
# modprobe ip_masq_h323
#

Any other ideas ?

Thanks,
Luc