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Hi all. I have a nessusd running on a debian machine on my network, but cant seem to connect to it and scan another box on my network from my ...
  1. 02-26-2008 #1
    dellthinker
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    Hi all. I have a nessusd running on a debian machine on my network, but cant seem to connect to it and scan another box on my network from my laptop. I get an error with the client. Nessusd is running ofcourse but it keeps giving me errors, that the server isnt responding etc etc. Can anyone shed some light on this? I dont like running the daemon from my local machine because it eats up a lot of cpu. I've had nessus before and i was able to do just that, and now that im starting to use it again its not working. Also, i upgraded the daemon to the latest and i still get the same error, i tried kill -HUP and kill -9 and im still getting the same thing. Any suggestions? Im about ready to kick my server =/ Thanx in advance!
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    whats the error you get on the client?

    have you followed all the steps for installing nessus, like adding your users?
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    Yeah i followed everything. The errors are:

    Cannot connect to Nessus sever!
    Possible causes:
    Nessus server is not running.
    Nessus server services needs to be restarted. etc etc etc

    I dont understand, i've done this before.

    Starting Nmap 4.20 ( Insecure.Org - Nmap Free Security Scanner, Tools & Hacking resources ) at 2008-02-25 23:16 CST
    Interesting ports on computer (10.23.2.3):
    1241/tcp open nessus

    The client im using is for Windows, and i have it connecting to 1241. With no user/pass. Any suggestions?
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    Make sure your ports are open in & out bound on your Windows PC firewall if you have one. (Any of the Internet Security packages, Windows Firewall, Zone Alarm, etc.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by dellthinker View Post
    The client im using is for Windows, and i have it connecting to 1241. With no user/pass. Any suggestions?
    so you have done the following on your linux machine
    # /opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -D
    # /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-add-first-user
    # /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-adduser
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    Quote Originally Posted by jledhead View Post
    so you have done the following on your linux machine
    # /opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -D
    # /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-add-first-user
    # /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-adduser
    That did the trick, thats a lot
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