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Title: E-smith and MSN
Post by: Sorin Girbovan on January 15, 2001, 10:11:11 PM: 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.
Title: Re: E-smith and MSN
Post by: Ross on January 20, 2001, 03:51:10 PM: 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
Title: Re: E-smith and MSN
Post by: Ross on January 20, 2001, 03:53:20 PM: Make that:

http://www.e-smith.org/phorum3.2.11/www.e-smith.com/read.php?f=1&i=214&t=214
Title: Re: E-smith and MSN
Post by: Sorin Girbovan on January 22, 2001, 04:51:09 PM: 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.
Title: Re: E-smith and MSN
Post by: Luc Fortin on February 16, 2001, 09:29:58 PM: 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 ?
Title: Re: E-smith and MSN
Post by: Sorin Girbovan on February 17, 2001, 03:38:19 PM: 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.
Title: Re: E-smith and MSN
Post by: Charlie Brady on February 17, 2001, 05:34:41 PM: 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
Title: Re: E-smith and MSN
Post by: Luc Fortin on February 18, 2001, 06:04:03 AM: 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