Re: [Nbd] password?

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@...3...>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:11:19PM -0700, Charles Landau wrote:
> I'm trying to get nbd running. On the server computer, I downloaded, 
> built, and installed nbd. I ran:
> 
> nbd-server 1077 /dev/hda5
> 
> pointing it at an unused partition. There is no nbd_server.allow file.
> 
> On the client computer, I downloaded, built, and installed nbd. I ran:
> 
> insmod /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/block/nbd.ko
> mknod /dev/nd0 b 43 0
> nbd-client 192.168.0.31 1077 /dev/nd0
> 
> I get the following message on the client over and over:
> 
> Error: Connect: Connection refused
> error: Error reading initial password, aborting: Transport endpoint 
> is not connected
> 
> What am I missing? I can find no documentation on how to set this up 
> other than the man pages, and they say nothing about a password.

Correct; there is no actual password. The "initial password" is just a
magic value that is part of the protocol.

The problem really is the line above ("Connection refused"); apparently,
your client cannot connect to the server for some reason. Are you
running a firewall?

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