-=> Jagossel wrote to All <=-

 Ja> I am at a loss on this one. I have been trying to get a FTN node
 Ja> set up on my BBS for a while now, and I'm stuck.

 Ja> So far, I got BinkIT installed and it is waiting for connections.
 Ja> I have port-forawrd set up on my router. At this, point, I am not
 Ja> ready to test this.

 Ja> I did spend time in EchoCfg and got the node information set, and
 Ja> got the timed events working and to run BINKOUT and BINKPOLL
 Ja> every hour. According to logs, it was able to connect and pull
 Ja> the files without a problem.  I also just created directories on
 Ja> the file system where EchoCfg was expecting it to be located.

 Ja> I did set up the message area for the FTN in SCFG and it looks
 Ja> like it got my Fidonet adress set up. And just now, I manually
 Ja> entered in the conference identifiers in SCFG. I did make sure
 Ja> that the internal name matches the internal name of the FTN
 Ja> conferences. I actualy imported the conference areas that the FTN
 Ja> provider included with the info pack.

 Ja> So, where I am now is trying to get Synchronet to tie the message
 Ja> area with the network; it does not seem to tie the two together.

 Ja> Am I missing something? Is there a guide on how to properly set
 Ja> up a connection to a FTN node? I have been stumbling around and
 Ja> trying to go through the Wiki, but I can't seem to find
 Ja> documentation around it.

 Ja> Please bare with me, this is my first time in setting up a
 Ja> connection to the FTN. So far, I was able to get QWK networks
 Ja> setup, installed a door game, added/imported files, and able to
 Ja> customize the screens some without any trouble. Now, I am
 Ja> struggling to get FTN working. 

Sounds like you may have not exported your message base info to 
AREAS.BBS, so the tosser (SBBSECHO) doesn't know what to do with 
messages.  Go back into SCFG / Message Areas, and go to the FTN 
group in question.  Then choose "Export Areas" and pick the 
"areas.bbs" choice under that.

Also, make sure the sub-boards in that message group have "Fido 
echomail" set to "Yes". (going from memory so wording may be 
slightly different).

Good luck and let us know how it goes!



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