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Gerry, > I'm working with Vince Beck at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in > Halifax Nova Scotia, and we're trying to get LDM up and running, talking > to sasquatch. > > I'm attaching his ldmd.conf for perusal. He's seeing this error: > RPC: Authentication error; why = (authentication error 5) > > When I look at the logs on sasquatch, I see: > Oct 18 20:21:22 sasquatch 142.176.61.164[9254] WARN: Empty > wanted/allowed product-class intersection for 142.176.61.164: > 20071018192121.669 TS_ENDT {{EXP, "^[DW]"}} -> <nil> Assuming that host 142.176.61.164 is the one in question, then you don't have an ALLOW entry for them that overlaps their REQUEST entry for {EXP, "^[DW]"}. Check the relevant ALLOW entry. Are you using their IP address? Is there any overlap? > It's taken months to get their Defence organization to allow port 388 > outbound... I'm concerned we're seeing an RPC port problem inbound but > I'm not sure. I'd just like to get them on the connection so we can > alleviate some web-scraping for data acquisition. Assuming that your log entry is correct, then they are able to connect to your LDM -- they're just not allowed to receive anything. > Any thoughts? > gerry > -- > Gerry Creager -- address@hidden > Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University > Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.862.3982 FAX: 979.862.3983 > Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: OLD-521702 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed