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Gah, I hate this one.  This is the error returned when the board has no idea what happened.

So, any information you can give me would help to narrow down the issue.  When did this happen, and what feature were you using?  Did this happen during installation, navigating, or posting a comment?  Were you commenting on your own picture, someone else's, or right after posting a picture?  Is this a new installation, or an upgrade from a previous version?

It can also happen when upgrading from an older version of the board, and you forget to update the language file.

Diagnosing server configurations can be tricky, so I might need a link to the board (e-mail it to me if the board isn't meant to be public, yet).

By "upload", you mean an applet drawing, not a file upload, right?  The board uses entirely different methods for each type of data.  File uploads are done "properly", while the applets use an obsolete method of uploading that I can't fix.  If file uploads work but the applets cannot send pictures, that narrows things down a bit.

I'm not terribly knowledgeable about Java issues.  Do you know if the IP address in that error message is the IP for your computer, or the server?  Is this a free hosting site, or do you pay for hosting?

I have the same access denied error with PaintBBS.  It is the SERVER IP... almost.  Mine is listed with 83 as the last 2 digits, and the error says 87.  Oh, and this IP looks like this: xxx.xx.xx.87:80, and I know port 80 is internet.

What the heck is going on now?

Last edited by DC (10-20-2007 14:29:48)

Well, everyone except for me can send post data through paintbbs, and I can use shipainter perfectly fine, and load and run paintbbs just fine.  I can only not POST the finished image.

From all I'm reading about, it has something to do with a policy file in java, but it makes absolutely no sense at all why only I would not be able to send.  I have the same stuff my members have.  I'll keep looking later on and find the solution.

For now, all I can say is, if you get this error, it is a problem on your own machine having to do with java's security allowing data to be sent from your own pc, and has something to do with a policy file inside the java security folder.

Well, there are fixes... it's something that has to do with java allowing java applets being able to send data from your comuter.  It blocks their access, and you somehow have to declare that it has access.  I also read something about signing the applet that lets it work fine.  It's just that, why would only I have this problem, so that's the only reason why I don't think it has to do with signing the applet.

Thing is, I have someone that only has Java 6, and he used it just fine, then I also know Java 5 works fine, becasue it used to before.

Good luck in your testing, Waccoon!  Hope you find out exactly what's causing that.

Well, you have a problem coming...

One of my members had moved back into their dorm, which did work fine with Jtablet, but suddenly didn't.  He also found out that he couldn't post to paintbbs on that, and he had the newer Java.  He upgraded java to the very latest, and then he got the posting error on ShiPainter too!

I said to get rid of java 6 and install java 5, and posted a link, and saved both the java 5 JRE and JDK so I had them in case they weren't up for download anymore.

Now, shi has GOT to update the programs or release the source for someone else to, or people are going to stop being able to use them at all.  We somehow need to get a collective letter together stating that her programs are becoming incompatible with newer java and are not working right anymore, and that more and more people are unable to post or use the program right.

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This might be another problem having to do with Java 6, I don't know... but I just tested out Ahipainter Pro, and the cursor DOES show up in there... but after I open the JTablet panel, I suddenly can't open any menu items from the main menu.  It acts like it doesn't exist, except that I can still drag it around.  After closing the JTabelt panel, the main menu options work perfectly fine again... but of course, as always, after you close JTablet, you can't open it again unless you do a forced refresh of the page or start all over again, which is about the same thing in some cases.  Could you check this out on your, too?
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Also, I had another issue that hasn't been answered yet here: http://www.ninechime.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=677

Could you take a look, please?  Has to do with Wacintaki this time.

Last edited by DC (10-23-2007 17:40:51)

I'm also getting the "access denied" error, but I'm still using a very old version of OekakiPoteto.
Since I got that error, I wanted to upgrade to Wacintaki Poteto now. But this doesn't fix the problem.

I tried drawing a picture on your board, and there was no error (except that your script couldn't find the OekakiBBS image I submitted).
But PaintBBS worked just fine on your board...

So, I guess it may be a server configuration issue. Is there anything we could test for you on our severs so you know what's going wrong?

Thanks.

Last edited by Filb (10-25-2007 13:47:06)

If you can cause it to happen, if you know how the hell you're supposed to "sign" an applet (like certificates for web pages and stuff, you have a file that si associated with the applet(s) and somehow they refer to that to get security access to run or something like that, I don't really get how it works or how to do that even)... then try that and see if it makes them work again after signing them and giving them a file that goes with the signing stuff.

I read about that and it was what was suggested, but the way I read it had to do with multiple applets... which sorta doesn't make sense since signing them also seems to just allow them to run, let alone do other things.  And I don't see why one applet would work fine and the other wouldn't.

Did you find out anything?

Maybe tomorrow, I will get the java console up and run it and post the error info to you.

For now, I'd like to make a long time, nearly forgotten about correction I just remembered is in all your wax poteto and wacintakis... it's not Shi-Cyan, you're typoing it one letter off (missed key), it's Shi-Chan.  Check her site... even says this in the copyright footer of her site:

Shi-dow ©2004しぃちゃん(Shi-chan)

Even her website is http://shichan.jp/  Should probably change that in your footers.

Last edited by DC (11-07-2007 21:04:24)

The CHMOD issue is because your server is running FTP on a different security group than PHP, so when Wacintaki creates the pictures folder, you cannot change permissions via FTP.  This isn't a common problem, but it's nothing to worry about so long as the pictures folder isn't locked (the diagnostics page will tell you if it is locked or not).  You should still be able to delete the folder via FTP, though.