On 3 April 2010 00:40, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK... I'd join the Procrastinator's Club if I ever got around to it... > > Every year about this time I install and run Turbotax in a WinXP guest > virtual machine in VMware Server 2.0 hosted under RHEL5.x Server. This year > I've run into a wee bit of a problem. This year when I run the vmware > launcher I get the following error message in Firefox: > > Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8333. > > > where 8333 is configured with vmware-config.pl to be the port for HTTPS > access. SELinux is disabled. > > This worked fine last year and the year before. Anybody got any ideas > what's gone wrong in the last 12 months? > iptables is the usual cuplprit in cases like this. You _should_ have a rule that lets all traffic from lo through, but that might be missing. Check (netstat -an) that something is listening on that port though. jch
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