Cannot connect to Perforce server via visual client

Question

I set up a new Perforce free service on my home server. I am able to connect to the service on the same machine using the visual client targetting localhost:1666. When I try to connect from my desktop I am unable to connect. I originally tried my public IP which is forwarded to my server, but when that didn't work I tried targetting my server locally as Server: "192.168.1.105:1666" In either case I get a similar error of:

Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.
TCP connect to 192.168.1.105:1666 failed.
connect: 192.168.1.105:1666: WSAETIMEDOUT

On my server "p4 set" shows:

C:\Users\Hephaestus>p4 set
P4EDITOR=C:\Windows\SysWOW64\notepad.exe (set)
P4PASSWD=13C72FC3B6AE5DF224D835D7A26332A0 (set)
P4PORT=1666
P4ROOT=D:\p4
P4USER=Hephaestus (set)
P4_1666_CHARSET=none (set)

On my desktop "p4 set" shows:

P4EDITOR=C:\Windows\SysWOW64\notepad.exe (set)
P4PORT=50.137.244.199:1666 (set)
P4USER=jelamb (set)

I've also worked through most of this: http://answers.perforce.com/articles/KB/2960/ . I tried turning my server's firewall off completely.

I've spent hours trying to figure this out and I'm just stumped. Why would I be unable to connect?

Answer 1

I ended up finding out that for whatever reason, adding the config stuff as system variables through Windows didn't do what I needed. Adding them via p4 command-line commands did the trick. Weird, but it works now :/.