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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 22 2016 - 17:33:14 CST

Hi,
  Is it possible that the Windows firewall is preventing VMD from
accessing the network on your computer? The "Windows Defender" firewall
feature has become progressively more restrictive, and the default behavior
on most machines today is that Windows will deny applications from opening
network connections unless you have specifically allowed it. Often, Windows
will pop open a dialog box that asks for permission at the moment the
application tries to make a network connection.

We haven't made any recent changes to the software that would affect
PDB loading that I'm aware of, and it works fine for me when I try
and load the same structure code, so I would suggest checking whether
your firewall settings are allowing VMD network access or not.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 06:56:00AM +0000, Anna Lohning wrote:
> Hi
> I am running VMD on a Windows 7 system and receive this error while
> retrieving pdb files from RCSB server. I cant find anyone having this
> error on the mailing list. It's most likely a setting but not sure where
> to look.
> The detailed error log is:
> Unable to load file '2hbs' using file type 'webpdb'.
> Unable to load file '2hbs' using file type 'webpdb'.
> while executing
> "mol new $pdbcode"
> (procedure "::PDBTool::pdbload" line 6)
> invoked from within
> "::PDBTool::pdbload"
> invoked from within
> ".pdbtool.pdbfile.pdbload invoke"
> ("uplevel" body line 1)
> invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"
> (procedure "tk::ButtonUp" line 24)
> invoked from within
> "tk::ButtonUp .pdbtool.pdbfile.pdbload"
> (command bound to event)
> If anyone has any suggestions, it would be most appreciated.
> Pre-downloading is obvious workaround but I'd like to see if this is
> something that can be fixed.
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards
> Anna
>
> Dr Anna Lohning
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