[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8667) Metaserver on Windows XP

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8667 >

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Karl Fishman wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8667 >
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> I was trying to play a game over the internet starting the metaserver on my
> computer. I started the server with -m and it connected to the metaserver.
> However when I tried to connect to it the Win32 client gave a "no such file
> or directory" error and the GTK-2 client gave a different error message.
> Both server and client were running on Windows XP.
>
> I then tried it on Windows 98 and it worked fine. The problem appears to be
> with the server as I could not connect a 98 client to an XP server.

strerror() does not give the right network error messages in Windows.
Hence your "no such file or directory" error probably was "failed to
connect" to server.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa