[EibStudio] Windows 8 problem

[TheMax74]

Hello,
Does someone have problems with eibstudio and windows8?
I can monitor eib messages, but nconf remains blocked in transferring project or patches.
No firewall, no antivirus.
Windows 8 64bit.
Nconf simply hangs and i must reboot the pc.

With windows 7, i have no problems.

[Uwe!]

did you check the build in firewall of win8?
nconf must have a own rule.

[TheMax74]

The firewall is off. No antivirus. UAC is off.
By pressing the "i" button, eibstudio returns the info of the eibpc.
Only nconf seems to have problems.
If i run it from the command line, it hangs too.

[Sandman60]

Anyway I would suggest to grant access to nconf within the Win8 FW config. I recognize the same issue each time I use a new EIBStudio and within a new nconf and my the FW isn't active. AFAIK you cannot fully deactivate the FW since Win Vista.
Cheers,
Oliver

[bmx]

The firewall is off. No antivirus. UAC is off.
By pressing the "i" button, eibstudio returns the info of the eibpc.
Only nconf seems to have problems.
If i run it from the command line, it hangs too.

Actually pressing the i button is the same as nconf -i [IP address]. The only difference might be that by pressing the i button the nconf is spawned as a child process with the rights of EibStudio whilst using the command line it is running with the current user rights.

I would suggest to add the nconf in your EibStudioData directory to the allowed programs whitin the firewall.

There might be however further drawbacks in Windows 8.

Until there is a better solution just use windows 7 on 32 bit and you will be fine.

Regards,
Bernd

[TheMax74]

Ok, it worked.
Very crappy firewall.
Thanks to everybody.