[CentOS] vmware question

Sun Jan 27 06:39:01 UTC 2008
nate <centos at linuxpowered.net>

William Warren wrote:
> I am running Centos 5 64 bit.  For somer reason i cannot get the windows
> client to connect to the server.  The port is set to 904 as per the
> install but when i try to connect to the server i get the error the
> machine is actively refusing it.  I do not have a firewall on and the
> apache server and everything else is running.  I can check the status
> webpage in my browser just fine.  Any ideas?

Check to be sure xinetd is running and the port is open. And in
my case, running VMWare Server the port is 902(default), not 904.

netstat -an | grep LISTEN | grep 902

Likely xinetd isn't running.

nate