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

["Karl Fishman" <cdf30@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

This sounds reasonable - however I was wondering why cannot it connect?

Karl Fishman


>From: "Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: rt@xxxxxxxxxxx
>To: cdf30@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8667) Metaserver on Windows XP Date: Tue, 4 
>May 2004 13:55:55 -0700
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><URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8667 >
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>On Tue, 4 May 2004, Karl Fishman wrote:
>
> >
> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8667 >
> >
> > 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.
>
>---
>Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa
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