# I cannot connect my node. 58642

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**Created:** [January 9, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/i-cannot-connect-my-node-58642/22649 "2025-01-09T08:12:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![2E0YKD](https://community.allstarlink.org/user_avatar/community.allstarlink.org/2e0ykd/32/3659_2.png) [@2E0YKD](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/2E0YKD)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/i-cannot-connect-my-node-58642/22649/21 "2025-01-10T12:43:56Z")

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Thanks Tom, I have seen these directories before “/etc/asterisk/” but I can’t remember now where to find them.

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**Author:** ![G5TOM](https://community.allstarlink.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ad7895/32.png) [@G5TOM](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/G5TOM)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/i-cannot-connect-my-node-58642/22649/22 "2025-01-10T14:29:41Z")

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If you use PuTTY again and when the Admin Menu list appears select 9 Start Bash Shell interface. From the prompt (looks like a DOS window) you can type sudo nano /etc/asterisk/iax.conf. nano is one of the text file editors in linux. This should bring up the contents of the iax.conf and you can check the password.

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**Author:** ![G5TOM](https://community.allstarlink.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ad7895/32.png) [@G5TOM](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/G5TOM)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/i-cannot-connect-my-node-58642/22649/23 "2025-01-10T14:32:42Z")

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To Exit nano just press CTRL and X. If you need to make changes to the file, let me know and I will guide you through this. Suggest you also download WinSCP. This has a Windows interface and it makes it easier to edit files on the Raspberry Pi.

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**Author:** ![G5TOM](https://community.allstarlink.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ad7895/32.png) [@G5TOM](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/G5TOM)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/i-cannot-connect-my-node-58642/22649/24 "2025-01-10T14:37:15Z")

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sudo nano /etc/asterisk/iax.conf. (Just to confirm there a space between sudo and nano and the file path/name)

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**Author:** ![2E0YKD](https://community.allstarlink.org/user_avatar/community.allstarlink.org/2e0ykd/32/3659_2.png) [@2E0YKD](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/2E0YKD)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/i-cannot-connect-my-node-58642/22649/25 "2025-01-10T14:57:10Z")

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Thank you so much Tom for your time and patience with my problem. I couldn’t do it with puTTy but I found WinSCP and that made things much simpler. The password in iax.conf file was just random characters, I don’t know why. I changed it and saved the file and re-started the node and it is all working fine now. Thank you so much for your help.

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**Author:** ![G5TOM](https://community.allstarlink.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ad7895/32.png) [@G5TOM](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/G5TOM)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/i-cannot-connect-my-node-58642/22649/26 "2025-01-10T16:23:49Z")

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The default passwords issued by [allstarlink.org](http://allstarlink.org) are a random set of 12 hex characters. So typlically you would see something like;  
register = (greater than symbol) [58642:ab6fd45effdc@register.allstarlink.org](mailto:58642:ab6fd45effdc@register.allstarlink.org)  
I chose a random password pattern for the above example. But this should be the same password as shown when you login to the [allstarlink.org](http://allstarlink.org) website and check the node password under the portal nodes menu. Anyway, glad it is all working now.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.allstarlink.org/uploads/default/original/2X/4/42700284e201b031bd667c3f63bbae05a74b3104.png) [@system](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/i-cannot-connect-my-node-58642/22649/27 "2025-01-13T16:23:58Z")

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