"Network Setting Error"

[Electric Amish]

Keep getting this when I try to connect to Genome. Any ideas about a fix?? Is it my Firewall at work??

tia

amish

[Guru]

Are you using a http proxy? If yes look for the fix in our forum FAQs!

[Electric Amish]

No, I'm not using a proxy.

amish

[Jorden]

Could be the firewall. Did you install genome telling it that it was behind the firewall, plus gave it all the right data for passing through the FW?
Check your ghclient.cfg to see if all the numbers in there are still right.

Jord.

[Electric Amish]

I don't have any of the data about passing through the firewall.

Seti runs just fine tho, without any tweaking.

All I'm getting with genome is an MS-Dos box. Is that correct? It has the following in the box..

Starting screen log
No previous ID assigned
Connecting to Genome@home...
Network setting error.
GetID failed (retrying in 5 min)

amish

[Pace]

What version are you running?

Is it running on the machine with a direct connection to the net, or are you accessing it as an Internet sharing client? If so, what are you using to share Internet access?

P.

[Electric Amish]

The machine has a direct connection to the 'net, no proxy.

Version 0.98.

amish

[lurqa_MU]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Electric Amish:
The machine has a direct connection to the 'net, no proxy.
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Can you ping vsp18.stanford.edu ?

If you try 'telnet vsp18.stanford.edu 10100', what happens ?

Regards,
lurqa

[Electric Amish]

ping works.

Telnet does not.

amish

[lurqa_MU]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Electric Amish:
ping works.

Telnet does not.
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Well if telnet fails with something like 'connection denied' then it is likely that your firewall is not allowing you to use the standard Genome port (10100).

I think somebody wrote a FAQ about solving this problem? (Don't look at me, I also have two machines that cannot connect because they are behind a restrictive firewall )

Good luck.

Regards,
lurqa

[Guru]

The proxy workaround should solwe that as well!

[Liquid Snake]

Are you running ANY type of firewall? If you can not connect to port 10100 and you have NO firewall on your end, then it is possible that your ISP has a firewall up, which really sucks.

[Electric Amish]

No, I'm trying to run this from work and there is definately a firewall on my end.

What's the proxy workaround??

amish

[Guru]

http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000073.html

I found it quite easy to set up when I needed to bypass a firewall/proxyserver!

[This message has been edited by Guru (edited 26 June 2001).]