I've seen problems with thing like McAffee firewalls and the new windows service pack. You are asked once if you will allow pd to access the port. If you answer no, pd will not run. You need to find the configuration menu for whatever is bolcking the ports (The McAffe configuration or the Windows security center), and unblock pd. The weird thing in your case is that pd runs sometimes...

Cheers, Andrés

Message: 5 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:56:00 +0200 From: Ales Zemene ales@mur.at To: pd-list@iem.at Reply-To: ales@mur.at Subject: [PD] ports again

sorry, didn't make it clear before : the 5400 port is absolutely ok, problem comes if you try to run pd on server with firewall, closed ports, etc. it is simply not enough if i leave only 5400 port open. pd (sometimes) does not start.

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Ales Zemene wrote: ...after pd starts there is 5400/tcp open pcduo-old which closes again after stopping pd, i guess pd needs some another port open in order to start ?

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IOhannes wrote: well, 5400 is the port pd uses to talk to pd-gui (because pd and pd-gui are connected via a "network", this makes it so hard to work on win95, where you don't have a tcp/ip-stack by default) if you don't want this port to be opened, you could try starting pd with "-nogui". mfg.a.dsr IOhannes

for unknown reason it *mostly* works after restarting system. perhaps it has something to do with iptables rules. thanks

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