Thread: bind() fails with WSAEACCES

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    bind() fails with WSAEACCES

    Hi,

    after installing some (probably wrong) device driver for my umts hardware my software written in C on WinXP always fails at the point there it tries to bind to a multicast socket with error code WSAEACCES.

    (I'm not 100% sure that the driver is the reason, but it's installation was the last thing I did before running into that problem)

    What I tried to solve it:
    -reboot
    -reset tcp ip stack
    -uninstall the driver
    -try other multicast adress

    nothing seems to to help so far.

    msdn just says:

    Permission denied.

    An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions. An example is using a broadcast address for sendto without broadcast permission being set using setsockopt(SO_BROADCAST).

    Another possible reason for the WSAEACCES error is that when the bind function is called (on Windows NT 4 SP4 or later), another application, service, or kernel mode driver is bound to the same address with exclusive access. Such exclusive access is a new feature of Windows NT 4 SP4 and later, and is implemented by using the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option.
    So it seems somehow this driver is accessing/locking my multicast adresses.
    Does anybody has an idea what else I could try?

    Thank you in advance!

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    http://www.sockets.com/ch16.htm#Multicast
    http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/ht...alls.html#bind
    My impression is that multicast is a UDP protocol only. If a single receiver fails to receive a packet, there is no way to ask the sender for another copy, without really mucking up what everyone else is doing.

    To that end, you don't bind() to a port, but you use sendto() and recvfrom() instead, which supply that information as extra parameters.
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    Sorry Salem, I didn't looked carefully enough. The code which causes the problem wasn't written by me. It has nothing to do with multi cast (which is used in another part of the program). The software is widely used and I'm the only one who suffers from that problem, it doesn't happen on any other computer.

    I extracted the code and was able to reproduce it in the following example:

    Code:
    #include <winsock2.h>
    
    int main()
    {
    	WSADATA wsaData;
    	WORD wVersionRequested = MAKEWORD( 2, 2 );
    	int err = WSAStartup( wVersionRequested, &wsaData );
    	if ( err != 0 ) 
    	{                         
    		return -1;
    	}
    
    	unsigned short port = 8015;
    	unsigned int bind_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
    
    	SOCKET  s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
    
    	struct sockaddr_in addr;
    
    	int yes = 1;
    
    	if (s < 0)	return -1;
    
    	memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
    	addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    	addr.sin_port = htons(port);
    	addr.sin_addr.s_addr = bind_addr;
    
    	if (setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, (char*)&yes, sizeof(yes)) < 0)
    	{
    		int e = WSAGetLastError();
    		closesocket(s);
    		return -1;
    	}
    
    	if (bind(s, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, sizeof(addr)) < 0)
    	{
    		int e = WSAGetLastError();  //e == 10013 which is WSAEACCES
    		closesocket(s);
    		return -1;
    	}
    };
    if I don't set the socket option SO_REUSEADDR I get the error WSAEADDRINUSE.

    Why can't I bind?

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