Hi, everyone.
I posted my problem to the Microsoft networking newsgroup and didn't get any help, so I thought I'd try here--since several others have received good help with network issues.
I'm running Windows XP SP2. A few weeks ago, I installed the SpamBayes antispam program. When I tried to access the SpamBayes user interface at http://localhost:8880 (SpamBayes comes with a script to do that), I found that I got a "page unavailable" error. When I ran it, it generated all the correct messages with no errors, but the browser page didn't open. If I entered the URL manually, I got "The page cannot be displayed".
In doing some further checking, I found that I could ping localhost, but I could not telnet to it.
When I checked the event logs, everything looked fine; in fact, the latest entries were from four hours earlier.
This had all been working a few days earlier. I had made some changes to my system to improve performance, so there's a chance that I might have done something to affect this, so that the next time I started the script, it didn't work.
As I continued my testing, I found that the results are the same regardless of port, whether 23, 8000, 8080, or 8880. I get an error message saying, "Connecting to localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port xxxx: Connect failed."
When I learned about the new new Google Desktop Search, I was excited to try it out, but found that I can't use it, because it's all browser based. If I right click on the icon in the status tray and make a selection, whether About, Status, Preferences, or Search, it fails.
For example:
http://127.0.0.1:4664/about&s=3406709409
ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved
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While trying to retrieve the URL: http://127.0.0.1:4664/about&s=3406709409
The following error was encountered:
Connection Failed The system returned:
(111) Connection refusedThe remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.
Your cache administrator is webmaster.
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Can anyone tell me what's wrong? Is there a service I need to start, or something else?
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