Re: [twsocket] Restricted ports on the Mac

2011-11-06 Thread Arno Garrels
Markus Humm wrote: > Hello Arno, > > I fear you misunderstood what I wrote: Indeed I did, and I must admit that I'm a true, bloody beginner with unix-like OSes, being socialized with DOS and later with Windows, shame on me.. -- Arno Garrels -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSock

Re: [twsocket] Restricted ports on the Mac

2011-11-06 Thread Markus Humm
Hello Arno, I fear you misunderstood what I wrote: the one party who MUST know about this because they've created the OS X would be Apple! My suggestion was to bother their support with this as well! If you cannot find the reason in their docs then contact their support. Greetings Markus -- To

Re: [twsocket] Restricted ports on the Mac (resolved)

2011-11-05 Thread Arno Garrels
Arno Garrels wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently porting the TFtpServer to OS X. > I get error EACCESS on the attempt to bind a socket to port 21 on the > Mac, higher port numbers work fine. > > So I searched the internet and found this: > "When the address type of the socket identified by the > sock

Re: [twsocket] Restricted ports on the Mac

2011-11-04 Thread Arno Garrels
Markus Humm wrote: > Hello, > > for developpers there is a free support form or something like this > available. That one I used at least once for getting answers of some > "bureaucratic" questions before starting some development. > > You'll get answers from them but bear in mind when asking tha

Re: [twsocket] Restricted ports on the Mac

2011-11-04 Thread Markus Humm
Hello, for developpers there is a free support form or something like this available. That one I used at least once for getting answers of some "bureaucratic" questions before starting some development. You'll get answers from them but bear in mind when asking that those who answer play a bit dum

Re: [twsocket] Restricted ports on the Mac

2011-11-04 Thread Arno Garrels
Fastream Technologies wrote: > Ports < 1024 require admin rights on most OS. Never used Mac OS X but > maybe it has a mechanism similar to UAC(?) As I wrote, I tried sudo open which is similar as starting a process As Administrator on Windows. -- Arno Garrels > Best Regards, > > SZ > On Thu,

Re: [twsocket] Restricted ports on the Mac

2011-11-04 Thread Arno Garrels
Zvone wrote: > Maybe a stupid question but have you tried to telnet to localhost, > port 21 to see if anything else listens on it? perhaps a hanged > process/thread? The port is not in use. -- Arno Garrels -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://li

Re: [twsocket] Restricted ports on the Mac

2011-11-03 Thread Fastream Technologies
Ports < 1024 require admin rights on most OS. Never used Mac OS X but maybe it has a mechanism similar to UAC(?) Best Regards, SZ On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 18:17, Arno Garrels wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently porting the TFtpServer to OS X. > I get error EACCESS on the attempt to bind a socket to por

Re: [twsocket] Restricted ports on the Mac

2011-11-03 Thread Zvone
Maybe a stupid question but have you tried to telnet to localhost, port 21 to see if anything else listens on it? perhaps a hanged process/thread? -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our webs

[twsocket] Restricted ports on the Mac

2011-11-03 Thread Arno Garrels
Hi, I'm currently porting the TFtpServer to OS X. I get error EACCESS on the attempt to bind a socket to port 21 on the Mac, higher port numbers work fine. So I searched the internet and found this: "When the address type of the socket identified by the socket_descriptor is AF_INET, the thread