Mozilla connection refused using firewall and putty

[Intec Billing Unix Supp]

Problem using mozilla for kernel parameters in sam in a putty window through a firewall.

Connecting to IA64 via putty through a firewall with X11 forwarding turned on.

I connect as normal user, su to root performing:

normal@remote$ xauth nextract - $DISPLAY | xauth -f /tmp/root.xauth nmerge -

normal@remote$ echo $DISPLAY > /tmp/root.display

normal@remote$ chmod 700 /tmp/root.xauth /tmp/root.display

normal@remote$ chown root /tmp/root.xauth /tmp/root.display

normal@remote$ su - root

root@remote$ export
XAUTHORITY=/tmp/root.xauth

root@remote$ export DISPLAY=$(cat /tmp/root.display)

I can now start up gui sam which works.

I go to Kernel tuning kcweb and it starts up a Mozilla window on my local P.C. but then fails with the message
"The connection was refused when attempting to contact remote:1188"

Now, I believe Mozilla is running on the remote host so it should be able to see port 1188 on the same host.

[paolo barila]

Yes you're right,

I did exactly your procedure with the same box and sw and it works, I see a Mozilla with

https://hostname:1188/casey/top.cgi

So I think that nothing is listening on your port 1188, try

# netstat -a | grep 1188 # I have:
tcp 0 0 *.1188 *.* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *.1188 *.* LISTEN

by the way there's an apache serving it.

Paolo

[Muthukumar_5]

The connection was refused when attempting to contact remote:1188 is saying that there is a port restriction. Check the machine where mozilla is running with /etc/services.

Check port start with netstat -na or lsof tool. It has to show the LISTEN state to give service to other clients.

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Muthu

[Intec Billing Unix Supp]

I tried it again to check for to see if it is indeed listening on that port, and it worked this time.

I don't think I did anything differently.

Thank you for your insights.