Re: [Nbd] password?

[Charles Landau <clandau@...63...>]

At 1:18 AM +0200 8/15/05, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> 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?

To simplify the debugging, I installed on the server computer a fresh 
Fedora Core 2 with no firewall and started over. I am able to ssh to 
the server computer, so I think there is indeed no firewall.

Now, I get just:
Error: Error reading initial password, aborting.

(no "Connection refused") Any ideas?