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Thank you so much beard!!!!

Oh my goodness, I think it was the firewall on the hosted PC, I opened the ports with the ubuntu terminal and was able to connect by putting my local ip in the ip as you said. Before i celebrate too quickly for my friends to join who are not in my local network they should fill the in game window out like this? : https://imgur.com/igTWM6r or should they fill it out the same way I did to connect leaving the "Local IP" blank, pretty sure they need to put the 73.4.24.40 in the "IP" box. Thank you so much for the help so far!

Hello Thank you for Quick Response, Here is Google Drive link with both folders copied: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hajNVy4SokAV3YSiKTpvZRWvbwQgspv6?usp=sharing Here is the latest attempt to connect to my server, I'd like to note I have tried matching both IP and local IP with both the ip's shown there, I have also tried swapping them so in total 4 combinations of attempt with IP. I am attempting to connect from a different pc which the hosting is happening on but on the same network: https://imgur.com/j35jnLa. I have tried connecting to port 16262 also, and I have tried to search for it through the steam server browser thing pictured here also tried this method with the 2 ip's and ports: https://imgur.com/awD6GA4

I have followed the instructions on the wiki: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Dedicated_Server#Connecting_to_the_Server and in this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ7WAQ659xc&t=794s They seem to get the server up and running appropriately as I can see in my terminal line the confirmation message "LOG : Network , 1681668651407> 61,163,800 [16-04-23 14:10:51.407] > ZNet: Zomboid Server is VAC Secure" This means that the server is hosted and running on my dedicated pc correct? Have i done the port forwarding wrong? here is how I have it setup, is there anyway I can check if its wrong or what changes I have to make to it? https://imgur.com/2VmtBLq The valheim one is forwarded to x.x.x.107 because that was the IP at the time of setup and i can still login to that server when I launch it. I have tried the Project Zomboid ports to the ip that shows up when i do ip addr which is the x.x.x.108 and to 107 but still the same results in not being able to connect Any help is much appreciated, this is only the 2nd game I have tried to run dedicated server on so pretty new to this stuff.