Hmm something fishy here, you say you have started instance 2, which according to what you said in your post should have a server peer id of 1, but the console output you posted says: | 12:26:36,434 INFO [ServerPeer] JBoss Messaging 1.4.0.SP3-CP02 server [0] started | Which tells me it thinks its id is 0 | og.info("JBoss Messaging " + getVersion().getProviderVersion() + " server [" + | getServerPeerID()+ "] started"); | So probably you haven't configured the nodes with unique ids. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4159477#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...