KDE Connect with shared WIFI

Hi!

My laptop is currently setup to be a Wi-Fi repeater. The reason is the place I am interning only allow one MAC address per person to be connected to the office Wi-Fi. So I connect my laptop to that Wi-Fi and open an access point on the laptop, so I can access the internet with my phone. The problem with this setup is KDE Connect doesn’t work between my laptop and phone. Is there any configuration that I need to change to make it work?

The Wi-Fi hot spot is configured using Plasma Settings/Wi-Fi (shared). Everything work with normal setup.

Oh, that never occurred to me. Just the other way around: “Abused” one phone as router and KDEConnect did work.

Did you scan your local “neighborhood” (nmap or ning)? Can you see your other device? If so, try adding it by IP.

Haha, messing around with nmap make me realize: my laptop has firewalld installed. Somehow, I completely forgot about that. Enabling KDE Connect in firewalld makes everything work correctly. :melting_face:

Hey, thank you so much. I used to have it working, before I used a repeater, and so thought it was the reason. But you were right, only firewall setting!