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From: Anna Lohning (alohning_at_bond.edu.au)
Date: Tue Nov 22 2016 - 17:44:03 CST

Many thanks for taking the time to reply and for the advice. Very much appreciated :)

Cheers
Anna

Dr Anna Lohning
Assistant Professor - Biochemistry
Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine
Bond University
alohning_at_bond.edu.au
(07) 5595 4779

> On 23 Nov. 2016, at 9:34 am, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
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> 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
>> Assistant Professor - Biochemistry
>> Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine
>> Ph: 61-7-5995 4779
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