[jcifs] Jcifs, connect localhost without a network connection, SmbException: Connection refused:connect

[Richard Heap]

Yes, install the Microsoft Loopback adapter ( 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;839013 )
Give it a static ip address and replace references to localhost with the 
given ip address.

Julie_Zhu at dadebehring.com wrote:

> Did any one know how to solve this problem?
>
> We have the similar situation. Every thing works fine with network 
> connection. However, as soon as the network connection is disabled, 
> when we use http://localhost to access the NTLM authentication site, 
> it returns with the exception. However, there is no problem to use the 
> localhost to access any other web apps on the machine. So I think my 
> windows XP network setup should be OK.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated very much.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julie H. Zhu
> 302-631-6894
>
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