Paraview not connecting with remote server

[todoooo (Todd)]

@Bushra

 (0x1dbdee0): Socket error in call to connect. Connection refused.
(   0.291s) [pvserver        ]    vtkClientSocket.cxx:51     ERR| vtkClientSocket (0x1dbdee0): Failed to connect to server v100b:11111
(   0.291s) [pvserver        ]vtkTCPNetworkAccessMana:396   WARN| vtkTCPNetworkAccessManager (0x1c500b0): Connect failed. Retrying for 59.9993 more seconds.

I was meaning here where the host is v100b. However I now see that an IP address was specified subsequently. I suppose that 10.10.56.157 is able to be pinged across the network.

@Bushra

ntSocket (0x24cffa0): Socket error in call to connect. Connection refused.
(   0.762s) [pvserver        ]    vtkClientSocket.cxx:51     ERR| vtkClientSocket (0x24cffa0): Failed to connect to server 10.10.56.157:11111
(   0.763s) [pvserver        ]vtkTCPNetworkAccessMana:396   WARN| vtkTCPNetworkAccessManager (0x23

[Bushra (Bushra Rasheed)]

Sorry I’m confused

Do I give IP address of my local computer here?
I tried the following command:
pvserver -rc --client-host=192.168.10.14 --server-port=11111
(192.168.10.14 is my computer’s IP)
And got the following output:

Connecting to client (reverse connection requested)...
Connection URL: csrc://192.168.10.14:11111

Client paraview says waiting for connection from server but it never gets connected

[pavel (Pavel Novikov)]

@Bushra

Do I give IP address of my local computer here?
I tried the following command:
pvserver -rc --client-host=192.168.10.14 --server-port=11111
(192.168.10.14 is my computer’s IP)

you are right

[pavel (Pavel Novikov)]

@Bushra

Client paraview says waiting for connection from server

You should see “waiting for server to connect”:

Did you choose Reverse Connection in the client settings?

[Bushra (Bushra Rasheed)]

yes I did select reverse connection

and yes thats the message I’m getting “Waiting for server to connect”

[pavel (Pavel Novikov)]

Ok. I changed the connection direction between my machines (now: client on Linux and server on Win). It also works (connection always takes around 10-15 seconds in my case).
Do you have ssh without password? Do you have any error messages on the client side now?

[Bushra (Bushra Rasheed)]

I think the problem is with my server’s IP. It does not have a public IP and hence it can’t be connected outside my university’s campus. But when I was trying to connect it to a PC on campus, it was giving the same error…I will double check this .
P.S: I have ubuntu 20.04 on both client and server