Hi!
I had similar problem with JBoss, however, I had quite sophisticated packet
filtering there. So, I had to enable the communication between both hosts
(both were running Solaris). Also I had to add the localhost to the
/etc/hosts.equiv file.
Maybe this will help in your case too. If such
See:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/rmi/faq.html#nethostname
Explicitly tell the RMI server where it lives when starting Java:
java -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=198.136.189.254 ...
If the RMI server is running on a different machine, then trying to find
it on localhost