Neil Darlow wrote: > If I execute mesg y on the remote machine I can talk to it. What am I > missing here? nothing ? seems its working, if you want talk enabled by default put it(mesg y) in the login scripts ....most servers i build dont even have talk installed.. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ aphro@aphroland.org