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From: Cojocaru,Vlad (vlad.cojocaru_at_eml-r.villa-bosch.de)
Date: Sun Dec 04 2005 - 06:05:43 CST

Dear vmd users,
   I have written previously an email in which I described a problem with MSMS. So, after I install the msms into a directory in the path, I test it and it seems to work fine as standalone application. However I cannot use it to visualize structure surfaces in vmd ... As I said previously this is strange because apllying the same procedure on another computer everything worked fine ... So, now the question is: My computer has a Athlon 64 3500+ processor ... Can it be that this is the problem?? However, I would imagine that if this would be the problem, msms should not work also as a standalone app... But maybe it has something to do with vmd. In the meantime I also tested different versions of vmd and the problem is independent of vmd version.
   
I am using SuSE 10.0 as OS, the msms binary is in ~/bin and if I command "which msms", it gives me the right binary. The error message that I get from vmd is given below:
If somebody has also experienced this, I would be grateful for any advices how to fix the problem
Best
vlad

Info) Starting MSMS with: 'msms -no_area -socketPort 1357 &'
Info) Waiting for MSMS server ...
Info) Waiting for MSMS server ...
Info) Waiting for MSMS server ...
Info) Waiting for MSMS server ...
ERROR) Could not connect to MSMS server. Please check that the program 'msms' exists and is executable, or set the environment variable MSMSSERVER to point to the correct binary.
Info) Could not compute MSMS surface
Info) Done with MSMS surface.