swordman10 opened this issue on Nov 20, 2010 · 13 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 20 November 2010 at 8:43 AM
Several or 2?
What are the other errors?
Regarding the one you screen grabbed:
The library GUI is trying to learn the CP search parameters for the Search tab. The GUI does not hard code the search parameters because the list of vendors, product categories, etc. changes all the time. So it gets them from CP on startup.
The error is that it was unable to do so. This can be because CP is down, but since you mentioned getting other errors, it is more likely due to a firewall blocking the GUI from talking to anything at all, including talking to Poser.
Firewalls usually give you control of TCP access on a per-app basis. Some firewalls remember the actual executable binary that you gave permission to, others just remember the name.
When you upgrade software, the name of the executable stays the same, but the binary changes. If your firewall is remembering the binary, it could be that it now believes Poser was infected (modified by a virus) and is blocking it. A service release looks a lot like a virus - it modified your existing program.
As a quick test, you could completely disable your firewall and try launching Poser. If that works, then you have to go into the firewall config and figure out how to re-enable Poser as an app that is allowed to talk via TCP ports.
Note that I'm not talking about necessarily allowing Poser to talk to the Internet. There is a difference. Imagine a corporate phone system. Sometimes you make office-to-office calls that do not leave the building. Sometimes you dial out to the world via an outside line. You can imagine that a user may be blocked from outside lines while still being allowed to make inter-office calls.
So a firewall can do the same. It can be configured to completely disable an application's use of TCP, or allow just localhost (inter-office), or allow access to other machines (outside line).
You have to figure out what firewall you have and how you configure its control of per-application settings.
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