anonymous wrote : As additional evidence, I set a hostname for the remote machine, and added it's IP address and host name in both the client and server's local lookup table (/etc/hosts). When I try to connect, everything works exactly as expected. You found the fix. The host running JBoss AS must have its IP address and host name in its /etc/hosts file. In addition, the client system also needs that information in its /etc/hosts file. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4221042#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...