SUCCESS!!!
Well I´ll be blessed. It´s the firewall which is the culprit after all.
I wouldn´t have thought. After all this time of exploring and fiddling…
I did think of that in the beginning and switched my firewall off with the help of the GUI (both on the server and on the client) but it didn´t have any effect.
Now I did it with CLI:
sudo ufw disable
. And suddenly it works!!! Perfect.
Thank you so much.
But now I have to figure out a respective rule so that my firewall can keep running.
I know it´s port 24800 which is used.
Thank you so much.
Greetings.
Rosika