Epoptes

Client won't connect to 789

Asked by amsaltz

I'm broadcasting from a "thin" client (just a PC with Epoptes server installed). I ran the installation as documented. The client was not detected, and there was an error message that the certificate could not be fetched from 789.

I read up and tried restarting Epoptes. I changed the #SERVER to the IP address of the computer with the Epoptes software, but got a time-out.

This is a "wired" (LAN?) lab, if that helps. Thanks, sorry if I'm dumb about this stuff.

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Fotis Tsamis (ftsamis) said : 		#1

Hello,

You said you changed #SERVER. In which file? If it was in /etc/default/epoptes-client, the # character in the beginning means comment, you need to remove it.

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amsaltz (andrewsaltz) said : 		#2

Yep, I did that (although I didn't change PORT).

"Connection time out"

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Fotis Tsamis (ftsamis) said : 		#3

First, check if you have a firewall blocking communication between the server and the client.

If not run sudo epoptes-client -c ip.of.the.server on the client. If that fails too, try to manually copy /etc/server/epoptes.crt from the server on the client and run epoptes-client ip.of.the.server to see if it connects.

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amsaltz (andrewsaltz) said : 		#4

"ERROR: failed to fetch certificate from 170.235.214.121:789

...my Server computer doesn't have an /etc/server folder. Is that the problem?

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Fotis Tsamis (ftsamis) said : 		#5

Oh, excuse me, the correct path is /etc/epoptes/server.crt. :)

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amsaltz (andrewsaltz) said : 		#6

Tried that an a bunch of other things.

Turns out - I'm an idiot. I googled "What's my IP" instead of running ifconfig (which I thought was ipconfig, and was frustrated).

Got the IP right and adjusted the server settings. Works great.