Your first problem is related to your firewall configuration - others have offered suggestions.
But this second problem is puzzling. Since SlimServer will always try to call up localhost:9000, you will always have to change it. Therefore there seems to be something wrong with the resolution of local names to internal IP addresses on your PC. Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc. Go to Tools - Folder Options - View - Show hidden files and folders. You should see a file called HOSTS, with no extension. Open it using notepad. There should be a blurb from Microsoft in there, and a single line: 127.0.0.1 localhost This tells your PC that "localhost" means "127.0.0.1", which is a loopback address telling the PC to look back on itself. If the HOSTS file is missing or if it does not contain that line, let me know and I'll send you a clean HOSTS file. Since this can represent a security exploit (hackers can redirect common sites to their own malicious sites) I will take measures to ensure that it is not altered - for anyone interested, I'll give the MD5 checksum, and the content will be nothing more than the Microsoft notice and the 127.0.0.1 line. HappyPax wrote: > Firewall. When I open Slimserver on the desktop using > http://localhost:9000 it fails and I have to replace localhost with the > IP address of the PC (does this PC need a static IP address?, do I need > a personal webserver running?). > -- ___________________________________ Mark Lanctot ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
