Re: Tyring to run the examples program...and failing

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-08-26 10:47:07 +0100 Jacob Rohde <rohdester@gmail.com> wrote:

> First my firewall went crazy because something was trying to personate
> a web server (sh.exe). From the output in the shell I could see that
> some server was needed so I opened my firewall (F-Secure Internet
> Security) and allowed sh.exe to do it's thing. From now on my firewall
> was silent.

Sounds wierd ... and perhaps you were misinterpreting the (quite likely 
misleading) messages you were seeing.

My guess is that your firewall software was preventing gdomap and gdnc from 
running.

In order for gdnc to run, you must have gdomap running (this is the 
nameserver for distributed objects in GNUstep, and all distributed objects 
servers/clients will normally need to talk to it to find out where other 
servers/clients are).

GUI applications use gdnc for inter-process notifications.

So I guess you need to get your firewall to allow gdomap to run (and make 
sure it is running).
Then you need to get it to allow gdnc to run (and make sure that's running).

Only then can you really play with gui applications.