quotas... what am I doing wrong?

root@bcserver8:/data/ftp/quotatestuser# quota quotatestuser
quota: error while getting quota from cctank01:/tank/data for quotatestuser (id 599): Connection refused
quota: error while getting quota from cctank02:/tank/data for quotatestuser (id 599): Connection refused
Disk quotas for user quotatestuser (uid 599):
     Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
/dev/mapper/vgroot2-lvdata2
                 409656*    500     400   6days      16       0       0
root@bcserver8:/data/ftp/quotatestuser# sudo -u quotatestuser dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/ftp/quotatestuser/sometest$$ bs=1M count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.32444 s, 323 MB/s
root@bcserver8:/data/ftp/quotatestuser# quota quotatestuser
quota: error while getting quota from cctank01:/tank/data for quotatestuser (id 599): Connection refused
quota: error while getting quota from cctank02:/tank/data for quotatestuser (id 599): Connection refused
Disk quotas for user quotatestuser (uid 599):
     Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
/dev/mapper/vgroot2-lvdata2
                 409656*    500     400   6days      16       0       0
root@bcserver8:/data/ftp/quotatestuser# quotacheck -vugm /data
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/mapper/vgroot2-lvdata2 [/data] done
quotacheck: Checked 29597 directories and 873764 files
root@bcserver8:/data/ftp/quotatestuser# quota quotatestuser
quota: error while getting quota from cctank01:/tank/data for quotatestuser (id 599): Connection refused
quota: error while getting quota from cctank02:/tank/data for quotatestuser (id 599): Connection refused
Disk quotas for user quotatestuser (uid 599):
     Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
/dev/mapper/vgroot2-lvdata2
                 512056*    500     400   6days      16       0       0




The answer BTW was that in modern Linux distros, you dont' use "quotacheck", but just start quotad.