I have also seen this when there are errors in /etc/hosts. For example, try putting the hostname of the system under the 127.0.0.1 entry and see if that works. Alternatively, you can try using IP addresses to understand if the problem is related to the hostname. -----Original Message----- From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Richard Shade Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 4:24 PM To: Michael Robbert Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org; kaushik chatterjee Subject: Re: error in glusterfs volume creation Can you send your probe and create commands? I had to run hostname on my two servers and set the hostname to the name in the probe.. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Michael Robbert <mrobbert at mines.edu> wrote: > Kaushik, > What version are you running? There have been some bugs related to this. > Also what is the output of hostname? > > Mike Robbert > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:54 AM, kaushik chatterjee wrote: > > > Hi > > I am a newbie in glusterfs. I have created 2 servers with glusterfs. > > Now from server one i can see the peer but whenever trying to create > > volume > its > > says *creation of volume unsuccessful, host is not your friend*. > > > > Any help please. > > > > > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > > > Kaushik > > <ATT00002..txt> > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- Thanks, Richard Shade Integration Engineer RightScale - http://www.rightscale.com/ phone: 8055004164x1018