local loopback error message

William Hooper whooper "at" freeshell.org
Wed Sep 3 00:53:00 2003


kevin farkas said:
> After downloading the latest security patch from microsoft, i know get the
> following error message when trying to use vnc - "local loopback is
> disabled"
> and then connect connect to the pc. Prior to downloading the patch
> everything
> was fine.
> i'm using windows 98 and have tried adding allowloopback to the registry
> with
> no luck. Anyone have a fix or workaround for this problem?

Are you actually trying to connect to a VNC server running on the same
machine?  When using Microsoft OSes this is unusual (generally for
tunneling).

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William Hooper