On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 07:30, Terry Sheltra wrote: > Pardon the total newbieness :-), but I can seem to configure X-chat > correctly to connect to irc.freenode.net .. I put in the server name, > gave myself a nickname, and when i try to connect, I get the following: > > > --- Connecting to sterling.freenode.net (212.204.214.114) port 6667.. > --- Connected. Now logging in.. > --- AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname... > --- AUTH :*** Found your hostname, welcome back > --- AUTH :*** Checking ident > --- AUTH :*** No identd (auth) response > --- Closing Link: ts (Bad user info) > --- Disconnected (Remote host closed socket). > > Is there something else I need to do that I'm not doing? > > Thanks! > > Terry >
When you fire up X-Chat, have you made sure that you've setup a username/nick and all that jazz? When you fire it up, it's going to give you three places to put in nicknames, then your real name and etc - you need to fill them in. Then, when you create a link for a new server (irc.freenode.net) you still will need to put in some type of username - not a password, just a username...then you should be right (don't run IRC as root) -- Fri Jan 10 08:15:00 EST 2003 8:15am up 21:57, 5 users, load average: 0.10, 0.27, 0.30 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------
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