From: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: RE: sockets on WinNT and UNIX
20 Mar 1997 19:10:29 -0800
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Original-To: Philippe.Le-Parc@doelan-gw.univ-brest.fr
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Hi, you wrote:

: I have made two small programs : a client send a message on a socket and
: the server just respond.
: When I compile both program on Unix (of course with gcc) and I execute
: the two programs on Unix, it works.
: When I compile both program on WinNT (with gcc-cygnus-2.7.1-960712)
: and I execute the two programs on WinNT, it works.
: But when I tried to make a connection between the client on WinNT and
: the server on Unix, I have a "connection refused" message.

Sounds like the classic byteorder problem! You probably forgot htons() on
the port number, needed both on the client and server for portability.


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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