Connect to Meteor using Robomongo

Question

I have Meteor running on a local virtual machine on Windows which is accessible using the IP address of 192.168.56.111

When I use Robomongo, I use this IP address and point it to port 3001 and I an unable to connect.

Should I expect it to connect? If not, is there anything I need to do to get it to connect?

Answer 1

Setup SSH server on Windows and then simply create SSH tunnel:

ssh -L27018:192.168.56.111:3001 user@host

After that open Robomongo and connect to localhost:27018. That's it!

This technique I'm using successfully to connect to production database.

Answer 2

With meteor the database that runs is bound to 127.0.0.1, so it will not be accessible on other IPs. I think this was done for a security reason, though not sure.

You should use the local IP/127.0.0.1 instead of 192.168.56.11.