I am trying to understand dbus and its usage of noncefile. I have configured my server as such: <listen>nonce-tcp:host=localhost,port=6767,noncefile=/dbus/var/testfile</listen> and this works okay, the right port is bound (once I do dbus-daemon --system). however I do not get the "nonce" file created where I expect it, it still gets put in the %temp% dir. This would be okay.. but how does a client "discover" the nonce file? If i try dbus-monitor, it complains about missing noncefile and bails out: C:\dbus\bin>dbus-monitor --system Failed to open connection to system bus: Server address of type nonce-tcp was missing argument noncefile If i specify --address with the information above, then it works. I am however trying to understand the usage scenario here. I am using 1.4.1 on Win7 -- compiled under VS2010... hopefully I didn't screw up the compile options. Since it works if I specify the noncefile, I must be misunderstanding something about the usage model. thanks in advance! Will