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. 
>
>
>
>
>
>                    
>

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