Thanks Mark & Natarajan for your suggestions regarding this issue. What I found was the IE Internet Setting for HTTP 1.1 through Proxy connection was NOT checked. Once this was done the ???badProtocolTitle??? went away.
Thanks, Rogers -----Original Message----- From: Natarajan Mohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Connecting to remote HMC Mark, If you are running a windows XP mahine and if you had applied one of those security patches released last week (i.e jun 12 or 13th), seem to affect some network functionality. Refer to microsoft security bulleting MS06-25 or even MS06-21 (internet explorer) is related to routing and remote access vulnerabilities. This might have stepped up on how HMC interacts with each other. Easy way to find out is uninstalling that patch and see whether you get the old results. HTH, Natarajan That started happening here a couple of months ago. I asked the proxy / firewall folks if something changed and they say "no", but I don't believe them. I've dropped the issue because I found a way around it. I just add the HMC address to my proxy bypass list in internet explorer: internet options > connections > lan settings > advanced > advanced (unfortunately I have to do this every time I boot because of logon scripts / configs that chance IE settings). I told the network group this and they said it doesn't make sense because the address is internal and should already be bypassed. The thing is, I am on the zurich domain (172.) and the HMC is on the farmers domain (10.). The farmers people on the 10. network don't have that problem, only the people on the 172. network do. Let me know if the work around works for you or if you (or anyone else) has any other explanation. For us, it stopped working on a Monday morning which is why I suspected some weekend change broke it. Cheers, Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ________________________________________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This E-Mail transmission (and/or the documents accompanying it) may contain information belonging to the sender which is confidential, privileged and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. The information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this E-Mail transmission in error, please immediately notify us by return E-Mail or telephone to arrange for return of its contents including any documents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
