Quote - i don't need to have any findings 'verified' by anyone else, i SAW exactly what the CMS was doing as it started up.

don't farking care if you don't believe my post. thats your prerogative.

i did not 'assert' anything, i saw it happening onscreen.

if you want it verified, get off your arse and get a debugger to run the code for you.

 

You need to learn a lot, about a lot.  First and foremost is how to use a hexeditor to read what an exe is actually doing.  Or in this case a .dll.  But your screen didn't tell you that did it?  Do you even know which dlls are responsible for communicating with the CMS?  Under 4.5 that part is easy to determine, even without a hexeditor.

Unless your environment has 'localhost' redirected to an address other than 127.0.0.1 the CMS does NOT ping anything outside of your machine.  I have a CMS modified to actually work with a network centalized ValentinaDB, and my 30+ years of professional IT experience tells me that I have to manually patch the necessary bits in order to get the CMS to go anywhere but localhost.  I have been doing this since the 4.0 beta.

Kendall