With you on that.
Pi5 implies Bookworm. Bookworm implies Network Manager. Unless things have changed in the last week or so NM doesn't like DHCPless networks and won't bring up the interface on the Pi.
OP says, twice, the error is "Connection refused"In which case I'd expect a failure in name resolution (e.g. Could not resolve hostname foo.local: Name or service not known) rather than "permission denied".
(But I agree there is uncertainty around how the client would know to what host it is supposed to be making a connection.)
Statistics: Posted by B.Goode — Wed Nov 20, 2024 9:01 am