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Warner,

On 2009/03/21 5:09 PM, Warner White wrote:
> to mount its usb ports, and then it just stopped running. I would start
> Firefox, enter https://127.0.0.1:8333 (which used to bring up the
> management interface for VMware server) and I kept getting Connection to
> Server Refused. I've tried the firewall possibility by running usf allow
> http (and usf allow https) and that does not succeed. One of my browsers
> suggested that the server may not be configured to allow requests. (How
> do I do that? I'm not even sure what server 127.0.0.1 is. I pinged it
> and it responds.)

127.0.0.1 is typically the address of the loopback interface, so your
machine is pinging itself. The using that address in Firefox suggests
that you are connecting to the server from itself; if this is not the
case, that's probably part of your trouble.

If your firewall really is in the way, you'll probably need to specify
port 8333 rather than "https" or "http". I don't know what 'usf' does,
but if it's like many other firewall-related utilities, it's probably
using the contents of /etc/services to translate "https" and "http" into
"443" and "80", respectively. (Those are the TCP ports assigned to HTTPS
and HTTP.) There's no entry for "8333" in /etc/services on the few
machines I've polled (Fedora 9, CentOS 4, Mac/FreeBSD), so if you can
determine how to specify the port numerically rather than by name, it
seems like that would be appropriate. Good luck!


Cheers,

- -sth

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