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[tlongacre]

I seem to have terrible trouble with Library Server everytime something changes. The most frustrating thing is that I never know what the problem is. I just get the same "Failed to connect to a server" message.

So, my computer at work got upgraded to WinXP Pro and Office2003. Prior to this, I used Library Server from this machine to access my music at home flawlessly. Since the computer was wiped, I had to reinstall MC11 and I put the latest version (.190), which is also what I have at home.

I created a Library definition with my Home ip and port (tel.homeftp.org:8989). But when I try to connect, I keep getting the failed message.

Nothing has changed at home. MC is running, Library Server is running on Port 8989. I know the tel.homeftp.org is working because I can connect to a different port on that through another program just fine.

There was some sort of Sygate system thing on my work computer, but I disabled that and got the same problem, then I turned it off in msconfig, rebooted so it's really not there, and I'm still having the same problem.

Any ideas what might have been done to me to disable this? I can't figure out why I am having trouble now.

[John Gateley]

Open a command window and type:

telnet tel.homeftp.org 8989

This should help you know what's going on...

j

[tlongacre]

Hmm, well I tried that from the home computer and  that didn't tell me much that meant anything to me.

It said "could not connect. . . on port 23: connect failed"

However, I tried it also to port 8080 (the one that works) and I got the *same* message.

I'll try it from work again tomorrow in case it might say something more useful.

[John Gateley]

It should fail on 23 - windows systems don't respond to telnet.

Since it is failing on 8080, it sounds like it is not listening on that port. To find out your open ports, do "netstat -an" in a command window, and look through the output. Check Library Server options to see if something is there you didn't expect.

j

[RemyJ]

If you have authentication turned on, try turinng it off.   Having it on causes the server to simply not accept connections.