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Re: SocketCreateListner() failed
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Sandeep & Prerna Gupta wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have not explicitly installed any firewall,
> This is a brand new Dell Laptop, they may have installed something by
> default,
> I will check into that --
>
> BTW, Cygwin bash shell comes up OK, (just that without X, I cant use
> many of my utils)
> are there commands or small executables that I could run in bash to get
> more
> insight into this? I mean say sufficient code that invokes
> SocketCreateListner(), which
> I could compile debugable with gnu C++ and step thru in gdb. (For
> example, gdb works in bash,
> ddd doesnt without X). That could help a lot if feasible.
Is it XP SP2? If Cygwin/X is started on XP SP2 windows asks if it should
allow access to the network. If it does not for you then the builtin
firewall will most likely deny the access.
You should allow XWin to access port 6000 in the security preferences
screen.
bye
ago
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