# Lightning - Failed to Successfully Connect to Remote Peer

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-failed-to-successfully-connect-to-remote-peer/2056>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [July 17, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-failed-to-successfully-connect-to-remote-peer/2056 "2021-07-17T13:52:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![pbeaul00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@pbeaul00](https://community.umbrel.com/u/pbeaul00)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-failed-to-successfully-connect-to-remote-peer/2056/1 "2021-07-17T13:52:35Z")

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I hope everyone is having a great day so far.

I am trying to open a lightning channel as a part of a liquidity swap using Thunder Hub, but consistently receiving an error message that reads “Failed to Successfully Connect to Remote Peer.”

When I try to connect through the umbrel lightning interface, I get the following error:

“Unable to connect to peer, socks connect tcp 10.21.21.11:9050-\>71.236.184.238:9735: unknown error connection refused”

Any suggestions as to how I might be able to fix and make the connection successfully?

Thanks in advance,

PB