[Box Backup] Setup Help on Linux

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Sean,

First of all, apologies for the delay in replying. Due to a problem with 
our mailing list server, I only just received your email.

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Sean Laurent wrote:

> I'm trying to setup BoxBackup 0.11 rc2 on Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) 
> and I'm just not having much luck. I'm sure I've done something silly, 
> but I can't figure out my mistake.
> 
> Right now I have one client (192.168.2.100) and one server 
> (192.168.2.50), both of which are running 0.11rc2 on Gutsy. When I run 
> the client I get a connection error:
> 
> 08:57:46 Opening connection to server '192.168.2.50'...
> 08:57:46 ERROR: Failed to connect to socket (type 1, name 192.168.2.50, port
> 2201): Connection refused (111)

This appears to imply that the server is not listening on port 2201. It 
could also be that a firewall (on the client, server, or somewhere 
inbetween) is blocking the outgoing connection.

> I know the server is accessible, since I can SSH into it. I'm not positive
> the bbstored daemon is actually listening on the specified port (2201) and I
> don't know how to verify that.

You can telnet into it (telnet 192.168.2.50 2201) and you can also use the 
netstat command to show all listening sockets, which should include 
either 192.168.2.50:2201 or 0.0.0.0:2201.

If you can't connect with telnet from the client, try on the server 
itself, and from machines on the same network as it, to help isolate the 
problem.

Cheers, Chris.
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