I'd be interested to see if the problem goes away if you use the VM from

http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/alpha/SqueakNetFix.zip

Background: I've recently had the need to run some heavy-duty collab
stuff which used between 10-100 TCP connections connections per second
(since we hadn't implemented UDP yet, we just used extremely short TCP
bursts of data ;-) That was a lot of fun and it also exposed two
fundamental problems in the networking code (as you might guess with
these connection rates you get pretty much every impossible situation if
you just keep it running for an hour...) One of the problems was rather
stupid since the comment said the right thing just the code didn't do it
(ouch!) and the other one was a misunderstanding of the WinSock specs on
my part (all but two codes returned by WSAGetLastError means your
connection is dead and I only handled one of all the "bad" errors). Both
were _serious_ problems which sometimes led to endless loops on the
Squeak side (which, btw, might explain some of the other effects people
have seen with Comanche+Windows).

So assuming that this is no Comanche problem this VM might just solve
the problem. Please make sure you replace the "right" VM with the above
one (some people use multiple VMs and then you might replace the wrong
one and wonder what's up - so I recommend searching your hard disk for
any Squeak.exe's to see where they are).

Please let me know if the above works any better or not. It certainly
did work in my last demos (which run the collab stuff between machines
with XP and Win2K).

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jochen F. Rick
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 3:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [pws] Problem with Swiki not serving images
> 
> 
> Win2k is a problematic Swiki server. You should set up the external 
> server. Again, check that out in the help guide to the admin utility.
> 
> Peace and Luck!
> 
> Je77
> 
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:38:42PM -0600, Jeff Stewart wrote:
> > The server platform is Windows 2000 Pro.  I don't mind 
> serving the icons from a separate server (how?) but I have 
> some pages that have lots of diagrams, and those diagrams are 
> page attachments.  I have no idea how to get the Swiki to 
> serve pages, have A
> pache serve images, and keep all existing Swiki upload/attach 
> functionality.
> > 
> > --
> > Jeff S.
> > http://object01.go.dyndns.org
> > 
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: Jochen F. Rick 
> >   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >   Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 12:42
> >   Subject: Re: [pws] Problem with Swiki not serving images
> > 
> > 
> >   What server platform are you running under? On some of our linux
> >   machines, we serve icons through Comanche (minnow for 
> instance). We had
> >   the same problem you had serving off MacOS. I'm pretty 
> sure this is more
> >   of a VM problem than a Comanche one. Cross-platform 
> networking is hard.
> >   You will probably want to sot up an external server to 
> serve the icons.
> >   Check that out in the help guide to the admin utility. 
> You should be able
> >   to use some part of your port 80 apache server to serve icons.
> > 
> >   Peace and Luck!
> > 
> >   Je77
> > 
> 


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