Netinstall failing to launch in Windows 10?

RouterOS General
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Hello,

I’ve used Netinstall a lot but just not for the last 2 months. Anyway came back to it on my Windows 10 Machine to do some setup on a Mikrotik router and I get the message:

Error Window…
bind() failed: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions. [10013]
.
followed by a 2nd Error window
no code!!!: The operation completed successfully. [0]

Does anyone have any idea how I get this resolved?

I’ve updated to the latest Netinstall but its still the same… Most recent major change on this laptop was the Google Drive update… Networking components of the machine all working without issue

Regards

Oliver

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hi,

does it make difference if you run netinstall with administrator privilege?

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No Ive tried that along with compatibility options… Turned off all firewalls and other security features I can find and still no change in behaviour…

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And exactly the same result with the 64bit version…

5

Any pending updates from Windows or even reboot after installation pending ?

I’ve seen things clear up automagically after a reboot far too often on Windows …

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bind() failed: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions. [10013]

This is an error coming from the windows socket API when netinstall tries to open (bind) the listening port for incoming netinstall boot request.

There are usualy two reasons for this:

Another application is using the port neitinstall wants to use, if I rememeber right you can show open ports with netstat -ao

Some firewall/security/VPN software is not allowing netinstall to open a listening socket.
I had the same netinstall issues with Symantec EAP, FortiEDR, Cisco AnyConnect and other similar “enterprise security” snakeoil.

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Numerous reboots and checked the windows update status, all complete, only anomaly is that the TPM firmware is flagged as requiring an update? But So far I’ve failed to find an update… I think my next step is going to be a refresh of the windows OS

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Thank you for your comments, issue is now solved. I had installed a software from National Instruments for a digital scope/Multimeter that connects via USB. After I disabled (Via MsConfig) the ~15 NI services! that were auto launched when the pc booted, Netinstall started to work again! So I guess one was hogging the port required by Netinstall.

Regards

Oliver