[p4] Is vista not supported?

[Jim Tilander]

Oh, I'm not even trying to run the server, just the command line
*client*. The server I have running on a separate XP machine on the
network. But if you have the server running on Vista, I assume that
you tried out the client on Vista as well, although to a local
computer I guess...

/j

On Jan 12, 2008 6:55 PM, Stephen Vance <steve at vance.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
> --
> Stephen Vance
> www.vance.com
>
>



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