Connecting to MWClient remotely

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Hi,

I’m a graduate student at MIT (Jazayeri Lab, BCS dept), and I’ve recently started using MWorks. I’m having trouble connecting remotely from my personal laptop (MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite) to an experiment running on one of our lab computer. I’m using MWorks 0.7 (588115b), and I’m connected to the “MIT SECURE” wifi network. I’m 100% sure that the URL I’m using to connect to the experiment is accurate because it works on someone else’s computer in the lab. Do you have any idea of what could be wrong?

Thanks for your help,
Nicolas

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Hi Nicolas,

A few questions come to mind:

  • Are both your laptop and the lab computer running MWorks 0.7? In general, a client from one version of MWorks can’t talk to a server from another version.

  • Are you connecting to the correct port number? Most folks probably leave the server listening port set to the default value (19989), but it’s possible that the server instance you’re trying to connect to uses something else.

  • What is the form of the URL you’re using? That is, is it a fully-qualified domain name (e.g. “dicarlo23.mit.edu”), a numeric IP address (e.g. “18.93.4.195”), or something else?

Cheers,
Chris Stawarz