Hi Monks,

I've a question which has already appeared on your forum once (although no real answer was found). Basically, I'm running Perl and mySQL locally under Windows 2000 so I can develop my website offline. When I try to run ANY perl script which accesses mySQL, I get "CAN'T CREATE IP SOCKET" as the error report.

I have tried installing everything under windows 98, and it works no problems. It seems to be only under windows 2000 I get this problem (at home and at work actually).

Please can someone shed light on this. I'm afraid I'm gonna eventually go 'postal' over this (I have seen this exact error posted ALL over the place and was told to come here to ask too, as nobody else seems to have the answer!)

Cheers,
JT

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