These are two windows PC's, both running W10, 32 bit laptop in the observatory, 64 bit in-house. There is no Linux involved.
I will try to find the firewall settings you're talking about. Meanwhile, would you be so kind and explain exactly where I can set that IP address in EKOS. I was kind of expecting that 0.0.0.0 was incorrect, but could not find anywhere to change it.
When you say "Windows box", which PC are you referring to? In-house or observatory?
(Sorry for being a total noob here, but that is exactly what I am with these things!)
Explain it as to a 5 year old.