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Hi Paul, et. al., Sorry for the tardy replies. I am now in Phoenix in the exhibit area working on getting things working for the AMS show, so my ability to get to support email is limited. > additional info to help > > This is a typical error that occurs.... > > SFCPLOT WINDV CANADAMAP LATEST GRA=6 COLOR=3 > Accessing Dataset Name = RTPTSRC/SFCHOURLY.ALL > SFCPLOT: Cannot contact server (connect() failed) > SFCPLOT failed, RC=1 > SFCCON P3DIF OLAY GRA=6 COLOR=2 DASH=POS CINT=0.5 > Accessing Dataset Name = RTPTSRC/SFCHOURLY.ALL > SFCCON: Cannot contact server (connect() failed) > SFCCON - Done OK, I don't know why you routinely get (connect() failed) messages. If all of the scripts are run out of the 'mcidas' account, then you could change the client routing table entries to use LOCAL-DATA instead of climate.cod.edu. This should then do all requests out of your local account and bypass the remote ADDE server altogether. NB: this approach will not help if you are running the various scripts out of a different account or from a different machine. I will change the client routing info for you to see if this helps: <as 'mcidas'> cd ~mcidas/data -- edit LOCDATA.BAT and replace climate.cod.edu with LOCAL-HOST cd $MCDATA batch.k LOCDATA.BAT > What does it mean that the server cannot be contacted? This seems to be the > problem with satellite images as well. The connection is failing for some reason. This is likely to be some weird problem with the networking setup on climate, not in McIDAS. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: EXQ-796373 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed