I'm getting an error when trying to access my Droplet with P4V.

Posted on February 1, 2020

I’m getting an error when trying to access my Droplet with P4V or any Perforce software. It is as follows: Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT. TCP connect to [Droplet IP Address]:1666 failed. connect: [Droplet IP Address]:1666: WSAECONNREFUSED. It seems the droplet is refusing my access, which is weird because when I set up perforce with puTTY, I don’t get rejected. Any ideas on troubleshooting this?

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Luxin Zhang

February 2, 2020

Hi Davidtveraas,

Remember that P4PORT not only specifies the port you connect to but also the host. This can be mildly confusing from time to time.

First check that your environment variable P4PORT is set to “devel:1666” (or “YourIP:1666” which one is more appropriate):

Windows: "set P4PORT"
unix: "echo $P4PORT"

If not, you have to set it

Windows: "set P4PORT=devel:1666"
unix (bash): "export P4PORT=devel:1666"

and then try to connect, for example using “p4 info”, to verify.

I’m not sure what OS you are running but if it is WinXP then I should also have a look at the built-in firewall. If that one is enabled you might as well have a block on port 1666 since that one is a non-standard port from a windows perspective.

Have a nice day.

Shiroka