[p4] Is vista not supported?

[Shawn Hladky]

Works just fine on Vista for me.  You might check that the firewall isn't
blocking or UAC isn't interfering.

On Jan 12, 2008 11:04 PM, Jim Tilander <jim_perforce at tilander.org> wrote:

> 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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