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 On Sunday, December 28, 2014 3:36:42 PM UTC-5, [email protected] 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. > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/3314ceae-d5e4-4f9b-b60b-7dc2eca5f04f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
