socket creation problem

[L.Manoj]

sir,
my operating system is windows 2000 professional with
service pack 4 installed. whenever i try to create a
socket from either Java,vc++,visual basic, an error is
returned saying socket creation failed and returning error
please help me how can i solve the problem. my system is
also an oracle server, this error is causing client
connections to fail because it is not able to start
listener
manoj

 

[John Phillips]

What is the error code (retrieved using WSAGetLastError(), for example)?

Removing TCP/IP from all adapters, and then re-adding it.

And make sure you run a virus scan.

 

[Guest]

socket

 

[Richard Chambers]

From your message it appears you are trying to create a server type socket
which will be used for listening for request connections from clients.

You do not mention how you decide the port to use for the listening socket.

I suspect that the port you are specifying for your socket is already in use
by another application and this would be the first thing that I would check.

However, Mr. Phillips has the correct next step which is to retrieve the
error code and see what Windows thinks the problem is.

I would suggest as a standard practice to always put a call into the
appropriate GetLastError() function and then print it to the debugger output
screen after calling a Windows function even if you are not using the error
code in your production code to provide an informative error message. I try
to remember to do this so that when using the debugger during unit and
integration testing, I will be able to see the error code if a function call
fails.

Richard Chambers