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Dave
| I think I understood the reason - I haven't installed service pack 4
| (the installation program should have warned me, shouldn't it?)
|
| Could it be the reason of such a strange behaviour of the system after
| installation of the update?
| I can't install SP4 - whenever I try to download it from the Microsoft site,
| it starts downloading but then says "Couldn't connect to the server"
| Where else can I find SP4?
|
|
| Zubilo
|
| | > I know I had problems with XDM Broadcast with 6.2 on Win2K and was no
| longer a problem with
| > v7.0
| >
| > v8.0 is out but, we have seen no reason to update our workstations.
| >
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
| | > | OK
| > | my machine was firewalled by Tiny Personal Firewall when I was
| installing
| > | the update
| > | the firewall was asking me a lot of questions like "some unknown
| application
| > | tries to access some file (or internet). deny?" and so on
| > | i guess at some point something went wrong with the firewall
| > | (i cann't come up with any other explanation at the moment)
| > | but I have deinstalled the update and installed it again
| > | and this didn't solve the problem yet
| > | really don't know what to do now
| > | it would be a great pain to reinstall the whole system....
| > |
| > |
| > | Zubilo
| > |
| > | | > | > I just updated my Win2K SP4 PC with 828749 and tried a X Session using
| H.
| > | Exceed v7.0.0.0.
| > | > Using Exceed, I had no problem in accessing and logging onto Unix
| servers
| > | and performing X
| > | > Windows.
| > | >
| > | > Dave
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > | > | > | What version of Hummingbird Exceed are you using ?
| > | > | What is the OS that you are using ?
| > | > |
| > | > | Dave
| > | > |
| > | > |
| > | | > | > | | I have installed Security update 828749 (
| > | > | |
| > | > |
| > | >
| > |
| >
|
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.asp )
| > | > | | this morning. After rebooting machine I found that
| > | > | |
| > | > | | ftp, ssh, ping and an X-server Exceed cann't connect to network
| > | (connection
| > | > | | refused)
| > | > | | but some programs like ftp client "WS ftp" or samba client still
| work
| > | > | | properly as before!
| > | > | | This is a complete mistery to me why it happened.
| > | > | | I have deinstalled the update. Installed it again - the same.
| > | > | |
| > | > | | Has anyone come across the same problem? I think it's pretty
| dangerous
| > | to
| > | > | | install this update. I'm completely lost - I have no clue what
| > | happened.
| > | > | |
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| > | > | | Zubilo
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