Error When Submitting Pre-task Options

[Frained]

Have just installed the latest WS 2.23.5 and whien submitting my usual DViCO driver restart pre-task, a window comes up with this message:

Security Warning: This action is not permitted from remote addresses, you can only perform this action from the machine that Web Scheduler is running on. Tour current address is 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1

WS and all other TV/DVD applications are running from this one machine so I have no idea what the message is saying in my context. Have defaulted IE6 and there is no firewall running, don't know what else to do. Anyone seen this before?

[null_pointer]

are you using the host name localhost i.e.

http://localhost:8080

or the actual machine name?

[Frained]

no, the one I use is the default which is

http://localhost:8429

[null_pointer]

What OS is this on, do you have IP4 and IP6 on this machine or just IP6?

[Frained]

null, its a stock standard XP Pro SP2 with all latest critical MS updates.

Sorry, I don't know what IP4 and IP6 are.

[null_pointer]

the address 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 looks to be a IPv6 address (new version of IP) not an IPv4 address (old version of IP), I am not sure what is going on here.

What browser are you using?

[Frained]

IE6 with latest cumulative update.

Edit:
My machine is due for another format so I'll try again after that.

Thanks for your help anyway.

[null_pointer]

can you ping localhost? type the following at a command prompt

ping localhost

You should see the following:

Pinging zeus [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 2, Received = 2, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

[Frained]

Pinging ricscomputer [::1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms

Ping statistics for ::1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

[null_pointer]

I have no idea I am not even sure if what you are seeing is correct. What I can tell you is that the reason you can not set up tasks is that for some reason your localhost resolves to ::1: and not 127.0.0.1 why it does I have no idea.

[Frained]

OK thanks. I'll start all over and re-format.

[a_a]

Is it possible that something has changed the hosts file?

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

[Frained]

The only entry in Hosts is:

127.0.0.1 localhost

So I assume that is correct.

[null_pointer]

Try this address:

http://127.0.0.1:8429

and then try to add a task

[Frained]

Yes, that worked. Any idea why?

[null_pointer]

localhost should resolve to 127.0.0.1 but in your case it is not so WS thinks you are connecting from a remote machine.

[Frained]

thanks.

One more thing, how do I get rid of the WS taskbar icon?

I have so many taskbar icons now its starting to look like a ratsnest. I looked in the registry 'run' entries and its not listed, neither is it in the 'startup' folder.

[null_pointer]

you cant, just get Windows XP to always hide it.