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When I'm trying to join my friend who is hosting netplay through a traversal server in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, it gives me the error message that I put in the title of this thread. Likewise, when my friend tries to join me, he gets the same error message. Other people can join me and my friend, but me and my friend can't join each other.

I have tried matching my version of Dolphin to my friend's, and allowing Dolphin through my firewall, but none of that fixed the issue.

I am using the most recent development version of Dolphin.

None of us can really portforward right now since we don't have access to our routers, so direct connection isn't an option.

Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Okay so we were able to fix this problem. Turns out that my friend has to run Dolphin as administrator when he hosts Netplay. I assume it's vice versa for when I host.