[p4] Is vista not supported?

[Stephen Vance]

The server has run for me on Vista. There may be some problems, however. 
I have discovered that Vista has broken some of its POSIX compliance 
with respect to process control. This may not affect Perforce because 
they use threads on Windows.

Are you trying to run it as a service or a daemon? Try running it as a 
daemon first. Turn on logging and check the logs. Make sure the server 
starts that way.

Steve

Jim Tilander wrote:
> I'm trying to run the client software only from a vista machine, but
> it doesn't seem to work at all. I just installed a little test server
> on one of the machines at home and initially trying to connect to it
> from a vista machine yields the error:
>
>
> c:\>p4 -p stargate:1666 info
> Perforce client error:
>         Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.
>         TCP connect to stargate:1666 failed.
>         connect: stargate:1666: WSAETIMEDOUT
>
>
> My connection seems fine, a telnet to the above port from the same
> computer works fine. Turning off the windows firewall also has no
> effect. Elevating my privileges to root doesn't seem to have any
> effect either. I downloaded the current version of the p4win package
> (2007.3/140107). In the release notes for p4win, Vista is not listed
> as one of the supported operating systems though ... is perforce not
> supposed to work at all on Vista (i.e. is vista completely useless...)
> ?
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
>   

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Stephen Vance
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