From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T05:31:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Rinda on Windows & Linux

Guillaume Marcais wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 04:14 +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> 
>>Guillaume Marcais wrote:
>>
>>>I have a rinda ring server. But I can't get Windows machine to see it if
>>>it runs on Linux and conversely. Is there a cross-OS problem preventing
>>>it to work? When going Windows-Windows or Linux-Linux, it works!
>>>
>>>All the machines are x86.
>>>
>>>Any idea?
>>>
>>>Guillaume.
>>
>>Do you have a firewall running (ZoneAlarm, Windows Firewall). They can 
>>silently refuse connections. If so, try temporarily shutting them down.
> 
> 
> No, there is no firewall running on the windows machine. And another
> Windows machine can access the rinda ring server, but not a Linux
> machine (with firewall disabled)...
> 
> I may be looking for the wrong thing then. I take from your answer that
> there is no reason why it shouldn't work from one OS to the other,
> right?

Someone else will have to answer that, I havn't tried it myself.

I just knew that in similar cases where I had one machine in a group 
that wouldn't communicate, it was almost always a firewall problem.

Curt