You were correct my firewall was causing the connection problems. Once I opened up an inbound and outbound rule for Factorio.exe on my server firewall it allowed everyone to connect just fine. I apologize for my delayed response. Hopefully this will help someone in the future.

I will give that a look and report back. I'm away from my computer at the moment though.

The client just tells me that it cannot connect to the server when I put in my server's local ip. I've triedmy external ip with the port as well and have had no luck. I did not throw the peer to peer switch on my server bat. Would that mean that by default it is turned off?

Hello!

I have confirmed that I can run a server and have my friends connect to it from my client machine. All of the proper ports have been forwarded etc and it's all good. My problem is as follows. I bought another copy of the game to run a headless server on another machine on my network. I ...