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Do NOT set ROS_HOSTNAME=localhost. This is almost surely not correct. ROS_HOSTNAME is the hostname that the ros master uses to connect other (remote) nodes to this machine. If they connect to what they know as localhost, it clearly won't work.

The tutorial you linked to seems to do things correctly.

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