Hi James, Many thanks! Adding "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" to the hosts file got the client/server application(s) to connect. Those commented warnings were not kidding. Thanks, Russ Kinter > Can you post /etc/hosts and confirm that it begins like this: > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > Can you run > ping localhost > (from a terminal session), leave it for five seconds, press Ctrl-C > > Thanks, > James. >
