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| 3 | Problem ------------ |
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| 4 | Your linux box is on a home(uni, school, work) network. you have just |
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| 5 | installed licq and suddenly icq dont work. The computer connected to the |
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| 6 | internet that supplys your internet connection is running windows98 with |
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| 7 | the Second edition update & it uses the supplyed Internet Connection |
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| 8 | Sharing software. |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | Reason for problem ---------- |
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| 11 | ICS does'n t seem to be able to forward some udp packets. Every now and |
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| 12 | again licq will actually connect. This happens when licq trys to use port |
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| 13 | 1024 I am not sure why but it does happen. Another interesting thing is |
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| 14 | that other people will see u to be online every couple of times however |
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| 15 | they can not send u messages and u cannot recieve anything. |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | Soloution --------- |
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| 18 | the soloution is fairly simple and straight forward. I am sure there is a |
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| 19 | better way but this has worked for me on every version from .72 or |
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| 20 | somthing to the latest CVS. |
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| 22 | 1) go to www.cnet.com, click on downloads (up the top leftish) the search |
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| 23 | for a program called pppshar. |
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| 25 | 2) download it (it says that it is shareware and expires after 30days |
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| 26 | however there is no timebomb and i have been using it for about 8 months. |
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| 28 | 3) install it (on the windows98SE box that has the net) |
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| 30 | 4) open the settings.ini file in the root directory of where u installed |
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| 31 | it |
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| 33 | 5) down the very bottom of the file add the following |
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| 35 | #icq |
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| 36 | service=icq |
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| 37 | map=udp |
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| 38 | host=icq.mirabilis.com |
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| 39 | listen=4 |
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| 40 | remote=4000 |
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| 41 | enable=yes |
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| 44 | 6) then save and close the file and run PPPshar. as long as u dont get any |
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| 45 | errors relating to icq then it sould be fine |
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| 47 | 7) on your linux box go into your home directory in a console. go into the |
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| 48 | .licq dir and open licq.conf file with an editor |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | change the NumOfServers from 3 to 1 |
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| 51 | change the DefaultPort from 4000 to 4 |
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| 52 | change Server1 from icq.mirabilis.com to the IP or Domain of your host |
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| 53 | (the win98se box with the internet) |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | then save the file and close it |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | restart licq and try to go online |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | if it dosent work open the network log window |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | if it says server send wrong version 0 or somthing thereof make sure |
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| 62 | pppshar is working and started. |
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| 64 | if it just stalls at connecting to <your IP 192.168.0.1 in my |
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| 65 | case) chances are that the icq server is just to busy to let u |
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| 66 | on (happens occasionly) wait a few secs and try again. |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | good luck |
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| 70 | if u have any probs at all dont hesitate to ask me |
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| 71 | if u work out a better way of acieveing this the i would really love to |
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| 72 | know.. ;-) |
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| 74 | Alex Salmon aka ghoti |
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| 75 | alex060@optushome.com.au |
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