No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it - Ubuntu VM on Win 8

[havay...@gmail.com]

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie with puppet and i'm currently trying to run a puppet master server on an ubuntu virtual box and the puppet agent on windows 8 ( which is the host computer ).

Using the cmd tool on windows i've executed the following to see if the agent manages to connect with the master: puppet agent --test --debug

which eventually ended up with this error message:

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

I've print-screened all the relevant conf files and the error i'm getting. In my understanding since i'm running a VM I should forward somehow the

requests to the master running there, for some reason this keeps failing and I have no clue why.

Any ideas why? Both agent and master are up and running

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks in advance for your time,

Havaya G

P.S

hosts file on Win 8 hasn't been changed or modified, its the default one, I haven't added any entries there whatsoever. 

                   

[kaustubh chaudhari]

Is there a firewall wall in between ? make sure from client you are able to run # telnet puppetmaster.example.com 8140 (replace the fqdn with your puppet master name).

HTH
-Kaustubh

[Rob Reynolds]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:08 AM, kaustubh chaudhari <kaus...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a firewall wall in between ? make sure from client you are able to run # telnet puppetmaster.example.com 8140 (replace the fqdn with your puppet master name).

Another thing to be sure of is that the hostname of the fqdn of the puppetmaster is reachable, sometimes this requires adding its name and IP address to the hosts file.

 

HTH
-Kaustubh

On Sunday, December 28, 2014 3:36:42 PM UTC-5, havay...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie with puppet and i'm currently trying to run a puppet master server on an ubuntu virtual box and the puppet agent on windows 8 ( which is the host computer ).

Using the cmd tool on windows i've executed the following to see if the agent manages to connect with the master: puppet agent --test --debug

which eventually ended up with this error message:

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

I've print-screened all the relevant conf files and the error i'm getting. In my understanding since i'm running a VM I should forward somehow the

requests to the master running there, for some reason this keeps failing and I have no clue why.

Any ideas why? Both agent and master are up and running

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks in advance for your time,

Havaya G

P.S

hosts file on Win 8 hasn't been changed or modified, its the default one, I haven't added any entries there whatsoever. 

                   

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