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

["Marko Lindqvist" <marko.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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.
> 

  Can you connect with 98 client to XP server if server is not connected 
to metaserver? Which versions and where from are you using?

  I have sometimes got "no such file or directory" error when I have 
tried to connect with XP client to server, which probably was not 
currently running (ie I tried to connect to port where was no server 
listening)


  - Caz