Connection Failed due to: TCP/IP ports not alive !!!

penguinux · 11-20-2008, 12:41 AM

Hello friends,

I am trying to connect a WindowsXP system to Fedora3 system through cross-over cable to run my embedded application. i've defined the IP of both the machines in hosts and lmhosts.sam (in windows) and /etc/host in fedora. but still when i try to connect my application on windows to linux it prompts on windows that

Connection Failed due to: TCP/IP ports not alive !!

please help. thank you beforehand.

estabroo · 11-21-2008, 09:23 AM

can you ping the machines from each other? do you have the software running on the linux box that is listening on the appropriate ports?