Gowda, Thank you kindly for your quick response. It was my understanding that it wasthat AFR single process is acting both as a client and a server on both machines. I have tried the option listen-port as you mentioned below and I am getting the same result.. ilan ________________________________________ From: basavanagowda at gmail.com [basavanagowda at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Basavanagowda Kanur [gowda at zresearch.com] Sent: November 19, 2008 10:29 To: Ilan Berci Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org Subject: Re: connection refused with AFR single process (1.3.8pre) Berci, Have you started glusterfs servers? If yes, please check if 'option listen-port <port-number>' and try to connect to that particular port.