P4PORT Perforce client error in Windows 10

I am new to perforce and i am trying to connect to perforce remote server but i am getting error as:

Perforce client error: Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT. TCP connect to : failed. connect: :: WSAETIMEDOUT.

I tries setting the port also but still I am facing this issue. Can someone please suggest where the things might be going wrong?

1 Answer

Based on the error message it looks like your P4PORT is set to just a single : character, which can't be correct. Do:

p4 set P4PORT=your.perforce.server:1666
p4 info

where your.perforce.server is the address of your Perforce server. (1666 is the default port number for a Perforce server.) If you don't know what it is, talk to your Perforce admin. Once the P4PORT is set correctly, p4 info should show you the server info.

For example:

C:\>p4 set P4PORT=:
C:\>p4 info
Perforce client error: Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT. TCP connect to : failed. No such host is known.
C:\>p4 set P4PORT=public.perforce.com:1666
C:\>p4 info
User name: Samwise
Client name: COMPY386
Client host: COMPY386
Client unknown.
Current directory: c:\
Peer address: 52.119.114.217:62631
Client address: 52.119.114.217
Server date: 2019/09/20 09:36:02 -0700 PDT
Server version: P4D/LINUX26X86_64/2019.1/1845410 (2019/08/28)
ServerID: guru_maser
Server services: standard
Server license: Licensed
Case Handling: sensitive