I actually did that after I found the 1837. I closed the browser and the dsmcad 
process stopped. I restarted it and everything is working now.

thanks everyone!

----- Original Message -----
From: Rainer Schöpf <rainer.schoepf AT proteosys DOT com>
To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Cc: James Marcinek <jmarc1 AT JEMCONSULT DOT BIZ>
Sent: Friday, September 8, 2006 10:46:13 AM GMT-0500
Subject: Re: dsmcad on linux system

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, James Marcinek wrote:

 > The lsof sure did help. I found that the port the client was listening 
 > on was:  1837 instead of 1581? What could cause this, the other port 
 > not coming up? More importantly how does one correct this sort of 
 > thing. How do I correctly stop and start the dsmcad? Should I just kill 
 > it and restart?

Try restarting your browser before you restart dsmcad.

I found that the java applet doesn't always close the connection to 
dsmcad, even if you close the browser window. Hence dsmcad cannot reuse 
port 1581 and chooses another one (randomly?)

Try "netstat -n | grep 1581" to see the state of these stale connections. 

 Rainer