No connection to Acorn after few months of no use

[wallyblackburn]

So, I have too many hobbies...and I move around between them. I have a CNC router that I built and control with an Acorn. I've made quite a bit of stuff with it, but I haven't used it for about 4 months now. I use the Windows 10 laptop for some other hobby-related stuff (controlling my laser engraver), but it isn't a "general use" laptop. Updates are current.

I'm wanting to get back to some CNC stuff, so I connected the laptop to the CNC. But, when I try to start CNC12 I get the no connection message and it closes. There is a heartbeat on the Acorn, link light on both ethernet ports, and the traffic LEDs flash on both. I've disabled firewall, disabled virus, and rebooted the PC/restarted the Acorn.

What am I missing? Anybody else in a similar situation that might have some ideas?

Thanks,
Wally

[Gary Campbell]

viewtopic.php?f=61&t=1451

[wallyblackburn]

Thanks, I'll try that when I can get back to it later in the week. I do remember seeing that .1 address on the PCs ethernet port.

[cncman172]

Most likely cause is Windows Defender has turned on your firewall, especially if you don,t have cncm.exe listed as an exception

Russ

[wallyblackburn]

In training this week,couldn't test things. But, I took my laptop and added cncm.exe and other executables in the directory to Defender exceptions. Tried it real quick after getting home - connected right away!

Thanks,
Wally