OneAndOneIs2

Sick of the problems of being constantly on the wrong PC, or stuck behind a firewall, I've bought myself a virtual server. Somewhere to SSH-tunnel to and to rsync my files to, etc.

I've used Putty and Firefox to connect to the web via a remote server before - I wrote a guide on it, in fact... But I could not get it working on Vista. It just insisted that the proxy server was refusing connections, try as I might.

It worked fine from my other PC, and from the laptop when booted into Ubuntu, so I knew it wasn't the connection itself.

I even resorted into installing Cygwin just so that I could run openSSH itself. No joy. Even turning on the "verbose" switch, there was not a single connection to the SSH tunnel happening.

So that made it the Vista version of Firefox that was the problem. It was configured to connect to "localhost" port "5678" just as the Ubuntu and other PC versions were. I was using the same SSH command. What was the problem?

It finally occurred to me to try "127.0.0.1" instead of "localhost" and suddenly, it works flawlessly. Vista, it appears, doesn't know the meaning of "localhost"

Useless bloody OS. It took me over an hour to work out that one stupid error. What moron came up with THAT idea?