I do not have much experience with Jenkins and am facing a weird issue which has got me puzzled.

I have 2 machines say M1(master-Windows 10) and M2(slave-Windows 10) on the same network. I am able to ping M1 from M2 and vice-versa.

On M1, when I:

• install Jenkins as a Windows service, then from M2, I am able to access the JenkinsUI(via http://MachineName:8080)
• install Jenkins using the generic war package, then from M2, I am not able to access the JenkinsUI(via http://MachineName:8080)

Why I am not able to access the JenkinsUI from slave machine(M2) when I install Jenkins via war package even when the ping test is successful? Is there something I am missing? Has anyone ever faced such an issue before?

Background: The reason I want to install Jenkins on M1 using the war package and not as a windows service is that I need to trigger my UI Test Automation Scripts on the slave machine, M2 which will not be triggered when Jenkins is installed as a service.