Hi guys,

First of all Shakezula, thanks a lot for such good explanation and guide.

I followed all steps in the guide, however I am loosing the main point, thus I am unable to connect machines to start mining. As I read this forum some people also do not understanding this.
Can you please be so kind and explain what I am doing incorrectly. I am struggling with this and really looking forward to understand.


What I do not understand port forwarding:
" Side note: because I use a VPS for this, I don't really need to worry about port forwarding at that end. On the home PC, you will want to forward the port you chose for P2Pport in the cut and paste section to the PC you're using. For this example, that is port 55884. "
What does it mean?  Does it mean that I should add this port in .conf file of the machines? Please explain me.

My case:
1. I am trying to connect compiled coins on two VM machines: VM1 with ip 192.168.122.121 & VM2 with ip 192.168.122.158 (they are able to ping each other).
2. In my conf files I only put rpc username/password.
3. On VM1 I do ./barcoin -testnet -connect=192.168.122.158 &
On VM2 I do ./barcoin -testnet -connect=192.168.122.121 &
4. In .barcoin/testnet3/debug.log i get following:

ThreadSocketHandler started
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
Flushed 0 addresses to peers.dat 42ms
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused


I added this port 55884 to conf file of one of the machines and getting the same error.
Then I added command connect=192.168.122.121:55884 to one of the conf files and started getting this:

trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused

Please help me with this one.
Thank you very much!