Wallet Connection Issues

[nuggetbram]

I've been making a litecoin clone for a bit of fun, but I'm having issues connecting the wallets. I have 2 machines running ubuntu through vmware. When I run it with the -connect=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx line, no errors occur but no connections appear in the getinfo section. I grabbed the ips from the network info pane of both machines.

What am I doing wrong?