Starting in version 0.5.0-5, if no /etc/orbitrc file is found, one was
created which disabled tcp.  (As of 0.5.8-1, this is no longer done,
as tcp is disabled by default, but the file may be present if you had
an earlier version installed.)  If you are merely running Gnome on a
single workstation, this is probably what you want.  If you are using
tcp to share remote objects with ORBit, you can edit (or remove) this
file, if it exists.

-- Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org>