Two possible solutions: 1. As suggested by sebb, localhost in /etc/hosts should be associated to your current IP, not to 127.0.0.1 (loopback). You'll have to edit /etc/hosts and change 127.0.0.1 with your current IP.
2. If machines' IPs change a lot (because of DHCP server) you could use -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=$(ifconfig eth0 | sed -n "2s/[^:]*:[ \t]*\([^ ]*\) .*/\1/p") in your command line. This command line will return your current IP (if the network interface used is other than eth0, change it). As described in jmeter-server file, you have to add the variable below to command line if you can neither change /etc/hosts nor fixate IP address. jmeter-server executable command-line will look like this $> RMI_HOST_DEF="-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=$(ifconfig eth0 | sed -n '2s/[^:]*:[ \t]*\([^ ]*\) .*/\1/p')" ./jmeter-server Both solutions work also for jmeter executable file. The second one is a bit different 'cause you'll have to change RMI_HOST_DEF with JVM_ARGS $> JVM_ARGS="-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=$(ifconfig eth0 | sed -n '2s/[^:]*:[ \t]*\([^ ]*\) .*/\1/p')" ./jmeter
