Unfortunately, it appears that the solution is still pending or will not be available at all.
Other posters are pointing to a firewall problem but I had the same problem in a Windows XP machine without any firewall.
The problem is also there on a Windows Vista machine.
I have no such problem though in a Windows XP Professional Edition (and of course it's all right on Linux systems).
It seems the problem presents itself on Windows Home editions only, but not on all of them.
Try running maxima from the DOS command line (doesn't work for me either).
Rub?n
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Dr. Rub?n Roa-Ureta
AZTI - Tecnalia / Marine Research Unit
Txatxarramendi Ugartea z/g
48395 Sukarrieta (Bizkaia)
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De: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] En nombre de Roy Stannard
Enviado el: lunes, 11 de abril de 2011 1:45
Para: maxima at math.utexas.edu
Asunto: [Maxima] Does Maxima work on Windows??
Hi,
This is my first post to the forum and it's prompted by my having a problem getting Maxima to work on WindowsXP SP3. I get the 'not connected to Maxima' message. I followed the installation instructions to the letter so I'm puzzled!! I've googled the problem and there doesn't seem to be any clearcut solution to this problem (tho I may have missed it).
I have previous experience with Maxima on a linux machine (Ubuntu 10.04) and had no problems there at all.
Any help would be most welcome