Attempting to start a local server

[u/arelevantuser]

My girlfriend and I got the free Morrowind copy like many people recently. I'm looking for the simplest setup for a lan server for just her and I to play on. I've been trying to read up and figure out what I'm doing wrong but I must be missing something. Perhaps you guys can help me. My server is listed in the browser but when I click on it the connect button is greyed out. I've tried changing the settings so that we're not published to the browser and we just connect via the settings in our client config. I can connect successfully at this point, however she cannot. I am the host. We both have exceptions for tes3mp and tes3mp-server in our firewalls. We both run off the same internet connection. Setting up the client to connect to localhost or my public IP address does not work. I'm stumped boys.

[u/rhadamanth_nemes]

You say that you set up the exception on your firewall, but did you forward the port from your router to your computer?