I have read all the threads on this problem but I still get "Bad Call to Remote Host" on my client Jmeter Gui platform.
Heres my situation : 2 platforms on same network segment, no firewall, both identical builds ( Windows Server 2003 Standard. jre1.5.0_01, jmeter2.1,jaf-1.0.2, javamail-1.3.3 ). On jmeter gui box "A" I have edited the jmeter.properties file to include IP of remote client "B". no changes at all on B. When I start rmiregistry on B, ( via a DOS session ) then start jmeter in server mode, jmeter falls over back to the DOS prompt. Checking "B"'s jmeter.log file I get this : 2005/09/22 11:49:27 INFO - jmeter.util.JMeterUtils: Setting Locale to en_GB 2005/09/22 11:49:27 INFO - jmeter.JMeter: Version 2.1 2005/09/22 11:49:27 INFO - jmeter.JMeter: java.version=1.5.0_04 2005/09/22 11:49:27 INFO - jmeter.JMeter: Copyright (c) 1998-2005 The Apache Software Foundation 2005/09/22 11:49:27 INFO - jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl: Starting backing engine on 1099 2005/09/22 11:49:27 ERROR - jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl: rmiregistry needs to be running to start JMeter in server mode java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is: java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling arguments; nested exception is: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: Files\Java\jakarta-jmeter-2.1\lib\avalon-framework-4.1.4.jar 2005/09/22 11:49:27 ERROR - jmeter.JMeter: Giving up, as server failed with: java.rmi.RemoteException: Cannot start. See server log file. at org.apache.jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.init(RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.java:60) at org.apache.jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl. (RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.java:46) at org.apache.jmeter.JMeter.startServer(JMeter.java:376) at org.apache.jmeter.JMeter.start(JMeter.java:237) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.jmeter.NewDriver.main(NewDriver.java:139) even though rmiregistry is running on "B" !!!. All attempts to get jmeter to run the remote copy on "B" from local "A" fail. Anyone any ideas ? -- Sent from the JMeter - User forum at Nabble.com: http://www.nabble.com/Remote-Testing-Problem-t64661.html#a928455