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and therefore has no internet access

Installing Gnucash 2.4
* Accepted all installation defaults (no Internet or Trusted Zone access was
requested by the installer)
* I noticed that the installer says it is creating firewall rules; I found
that it had added inbound rules to the Windows Firewall to allow gconf and
gnucash UDP and TCP access to any port. This will allow the executables to
use localhost to talk to each other. This is perfectly acceptable.

Running Gnucash 2.4
* Zonealarm popped up a warning saying that gnucash.exe was requesting
access to the Trusted Zone on 127.0.0.1:50560 and gconfd-2.exe was
requesting access to the Trusted Zone on 127.0.0.1:50562 (I allowed both)
* Gnucash did not request internet access and ran perfectly without it
* If I do not allow the above Trusted Zone access requests permanently I am
asked every time, this is as expected but as it is only the Trusted Zone I
would always allow permanent access.

NB: If I deny the Trusted Zone access requests Gnucash does not start and
does not report any errors to the user, however, the gnucash.exe is sat as a
running process in my task manager - I assume it is sulking!!!  This is
clearly a bug.

Finally, if I
* Turn off Zonealarm
* Turn on the Windows Firewall
* delete the firewall rules created by the gnucash installer
Gnucash still works perfectly; I assume the Windows Firewall does not
consider a request originating from on the local machine to access a port on
the local machine to be a problem so grants it anyway.



-----Original Message-----
From: David Halverson [mailto:hellvee at gmail.com] 
Sent: 02 January 2011 00:12
To: 'Ian X Waddington'; gnucash at double-bars.net; janssens-geert at telenet.be;
'David T.'
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: RE: Gnucash 2.4.0 (Windows)


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian X Waddington [mailto:iwaddox at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, 2 January 2011 9:54 AM
To: 'David Halverson'; gnucash at double-bars.net; janssens-geert at telenet.be;
'David T.'
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: RE: Gnucash 2.4.0 (Windows)

I had updated my hosts file as I needed Localhost to be 127.0.0.1 for
another reason; it had nothing to do with running Gnucash 2.4

I'm wondering whether the localhost differences noticed by Dave is more to
do with the Windows version than anything else, does Ultimate operate DNS
etc differently to Home Premium? There is some useful stuff here
http://serverfault.com/questions/4689/windows-7-localhost-name-resolution-is
-handled-within-dns-itself-why

I know on my Windows 7 Home Premium machine localhost was not accessible
unless I changed the hosts file.

I guess the plot thickens and needs some testing against a proper plan, do
we have a volunteer?

Ian
--------------------------

I have another laptop running Win 7 Enterprise which has the same hosts file
on it and no probs there either.  Perhaps a difference in the home version
of Win 7 as opposed to the Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate versions?  I
seem to recall there are some networking limits imposed in the home versions
that are not present in the other versions.

Cheers Dave.