Bug #18873 clicking on selection box hangs
Submitted: 7 Apr 2006 3:22 Modified: 7 Apr 2006 3:55
Reporter: Jim Michaels Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:Connector / ODBC Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:3.51 OS:Windows (Windows XP Pro MP)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[7 Apr 2006 3:22] Jim Michaels 
Description:
after filling in everything but the database name, I expect the dropdown list to have the list of databases in it.  it hangs instead waiting for something.  won't die either.

How to repeat:
fill in everything for the root account except the database name.
click on the drop-down selection for the database name. 
mouse cursor changes to hourglass and doesn't change back!
[7 Apr 2006 3:55] Jim Michaels 
Discovered this was caused by Norton Internet Security's firewall.  Firewall didn't have ODBCAD32.exe and ODBCCONF.exe in its whitelist (tsk, tsk - not recognized by program scan).  Norton firewall has a bad habit of causing network aware apps to hang like this.  Once they hang, the app cannot be closed.  sometimes you must hit the reset button on the computer.

All works fine now that I added these 2 files to my whitelist. I get a dropdown with a list of databases like I expected.