Network Security Violation

John H Merritt merritt at iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu May 18 08:11:09 AEST 1989


In article <8905171251.aa01900 at SMOKE.BRL.MIL> ZRFL at DS0RUS1I.BITNET ("Heinz W. Poehlmann") writes:
>I got a little problem with the IRIX 3.1D Revision.  After successful
>installation of the maintenance tapes on our IRIS 4D/20G, we now get
>the message :
>Network security violation:
>Rejected connection from loopback

Try adding:

    RemoteHostRegistry /loopback true put

in the RemoteHostRegistry dictionary section of the file
/usr/NeWS/lib/NeWS/init.ps.  NeWS needs access to a network before
it can open up windows.  Note: I tried:

    /NetSecurityWanted false def

but that didn't work.

John



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