[krustyreturns]

The server itself isn't throwing any errors when this occurs. Here is the server log as well as XBMC debug.

http://pastebin.com/KqY2HdZe - XBMC debug
http://pastebin.com/f8EP9A46 - WMC Server

Yeah the server has never heard of the client. It looks you are running them on the same machine, but somehow the socket communication between them is throwing an error. When you first ran the server, windows should have thrown up a window asking you if its okay to allow the server to communicate, did you allow it?

I did not see any popups. Are you referring to Windoze asking for firewall permissions? I'll do a full reinstall of the server again and see if I missed something.

Yeah something like that. I'm pretty sure an exception is being thrown when the server tries to open the a socket for listening to clients. The first time you run it, windows should ask you if its okay with you - I have not experimented in seeing what happens if you say no (!). I have changed the server to do better error reporting (i.e. some error reporting) on the opening of the socket. Maybe wait until I put it up before you try again. I'll do it soon. You can just install right over the last version.