<br clear="all"><div>I've installed RabbitMQ successfully on several Windows servers and documented the process for the admins at our company. �Upon following my instructions for adding a new user, they received an error along the lines of:</div>
<div><br></div><div>�<span style="font-family:'MS Shell Dlg 2',sans-serif;font-size:9pt">Error: unable to connect to node�</span>rabbit@[machinename]<span style="font-family:'MS Shell Dlg 2',sans-serif;font-size:9pt">:
nodedown. �</span></div><div><span style="font-family:'MS Shell Dlg 2',sans-serif;font-size:9pt"><br></span></div><div><font face="'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">The logs also have the following:</span></font></div>
<div><font face="'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><div>�=ERROR REPORT==== 13-Mar-2012::15:00:15 ===</div>
<div>110 ** Connection attempt from disallowed node rabbitmqctl32476@[machine name] **</div></span></font></div><div><font face="'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div>
<span style="font-family:'MS Shell Dlg 2',sans-serif;font-size:9pt"><br></span></div><div><font face="'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Everything I've read about this says this is due to the erlang cookie of the user executing the rabbitmqctl.bat command not matching the global erlang cookie in C:\Windows, so I've had the admin check these values and he claims they are the exact same. �The RabbitMQ service is running as the default system account which doesn't have a home directory, so I assume the service runs the process with the cookie from C:\Windows.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Can anyone provide some guidance for where to go next?</span></font></div>
<div><font face="'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Thanks,</span></font></div><div>
<font face="'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Derek</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p>