On 2/20/07, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I get this problem with the maximas on my office computer (in my school
> department's control, within their firewall). The same programs work OK
> on my computer at home.
> This DEP stuff doesn't help.
> I have a Symantec Client Firewall. Turning it off doesn't allow xmaxima
> to start up the maxima process.
>
> Prior to some time (maybe 8 months ago) xmaxima and wxmaxima worked on
> this machine.
>
> There is a list of blocked ports in the firewall settings. What ports
> are used by maxima?
xmaxima uses port 4008 and wxmaxima uses port 4010 by default. If you
think that changing the port number would help you can do that in
wxmaxima configuration dialog (change the 'Default port' setting, this
in wxmaxima 0.7.1).
--
Andrej