[p4] Is vista not supported?

[Mark Ridgwell]

I've been running P4win on vista since Nov 2006 without issue.  I guess 
it could be a networking issue - I have had odd networking issues on 
vista occasionally where it can resolve names through nslookup but not 
when using ping.


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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