thanks dwj,
if I had a firewall running on the local machine that shouldn't affect the local sockets should it...?
I still can't get the socket to make a connection...not sure abt telnet though never used it before. I used to have Win98 and NT machine and they both worked fine.
Wondered if...
Hi tech215 Thanks for replying:
This is the transmitter for the message. I've used a "localhostIP" before and didn't work so I just entered the IP manually. The IP was first: "127.0.0.1" and then I got onto the web so used the ISP asigned IP both of them don't work...
Last thread was abit vague in its heading.
I'm trying to make a local winsock connection with winsock on XP and keep getting sckError: on connection.
Is it specific with XP: ie are there any IP issues I need to address first?
I now found winsock to be working...just not connecting.
The code...
I'm New to winsock controls: As I was trying out a simple message connection it returned a "sckError" and I can't seem to be able to make a connection to a listener on the same computer using "127.0.0.1".
I'm running XP and VB6 but some of the DLLs might not have been...
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