I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a
combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there
a program available that will provide instant messaging within the network?


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On 07/28/07 21:52, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
[snip]
>
> Instant messaging on a home network? Try a low-tech holler:
> "SOOOOEEE! TURN ON THE MODEM!"

What ever happened to diald?

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On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:33:14PM -0400, Jesus Arocho wrote:
> I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a
> combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server.
> Is there a program available that will provide instant messaging
> within the network?

Instant messaging on a home network? Try a low-tech holler:
"SOOOOEEE! TURN ON THE MODEM!"

When my wife wants me when I'm downstairs, she knocks on the floor.

Or she tells our dog George: "go get Doug".

Talk? I think there are X talk clients if you don't want to keep an
xterm open.

If its just a single message: good old write.

Doug.


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On 7/28/07, ArcticFox <genkokitsu@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 28, 2007, at 9:33 PM, Jesus Arocho wrote:
>
> > I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a
> > combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server.
> > Is there
> > a program available that will provide instant messaging within the
> > network?
> >
> Try looking in to Jabber, you can run that as a server.
> (http://www.jabber.org/) I've never used it though, only looked into it
> for use with my Mac.

Some Jabber clients (on linux, gajim and maybe pidgin) also support
link local (serverless) messaging. I have never used it so I can't say
more than that.


Cheers,
Kelly


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On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:59:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/28/07 21:52, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Instant messaging on a home network? Try a low-tech holler:
> > "SOOOOEEE! TURN ON THE MODEM!"
>
> What ever happened to diald?
>

Its an external Courier. I meant push the button to turn it on. It was
only a humourous comment; my wife would kill me if I addressed her as
SOOOOEE like I was calling in a cow; my wife wouldn't know what a modem
looks like.

To get the modem to connect, I ssh to that box and type:
$pon courier
$bwm-ng

and leave this VC 1 open. VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or
$watch -n 20 "from -c"

VC 3 is for net-related curses stuff (currently a wget session).
VC 4 is where I type startx when I need to.

There was a time when I had Ctrl-Alt-UP set in inittab to open a new vt.

Doug.


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On 07/28/07 22:30, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:59:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 07/28/07 21:52, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Instant messaging on a home network? Try a low-tech holler:
>>> "SOOOOEEE! TURN ON THE MODEM!"
>> What ever happened to diald?
>>
>
> Its an external Courier. I meant push the button to turn it on. It was
> only a humourous comment; my wife would kill me if I addressed her as
> SOOOOEE like I was calling in a cow;

It's even worse than that. SOOOOEE is how you call a pig.

> my wife wouldn't know what a modem
> looks like.

I didn't either, until someone pointed one (a 300 baud acoustic
coupler, in fact) out to me, and said, "That's a modem."

> To get the modem to connect, I ssh to that box and type:
> $pon courier
> $bwm-ng
>
> and leave this VC 1 open. VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or
> $watch -n 20 "from -c"
>
> VC 3 is for net-related curses stuff (currently a wget session).
> VC 4 is where I type startx when I need to.
>
> There was a time when I had Ctrl-Alt-UP set in inittab to open a new vt.
>
> Doug.
>
>


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Jesus Arocho wrote:

> I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a
> combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is
> there a program available that will provide instant messaging within the
> network?
Hi Jesus,
You can try KSalup
KSalup supports two protocols :

Communication with a computer running Winpopup or using the
NetBios protocol over TCP sending and receiving messages through Samba.

Communication with computers on a local subnet, using the
Netbios protocol over UDP, compatible with almost all of the current
softwares
(Kurupop, Pipo p, Salup, Windows NT, ...)
Cheers,
Jonathan
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> What ever happened to diald?

It was obsoleted by the demand-dial feature of pppd which can be configured
with pppconfig.

Doug writes:
> Its an external Courier. I meant push the button to turn it on.

Why do you turn it off?
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