I'm running on an Amazon EC2 server. The ports listed above, are the open ports.

My local client that I'm using to test it, is my laptop, and it connects fine to the other electrum servers. I'm using the IP port to specify the name of my server, and this works when I attach locally and use 127.0.0.1. It just doesn't work when I'm connecting from my laptop and using the IP of the Amazon server.

The 'password=secret' is the only thing that bugs me, from the server's electrum.conf file. I don't know understand it. What is it a password to?

It's frustrating because this setup went so well. I had the whole thing ready to download the block chain in about 2 hours, since I already had the bitcoind up and running; only to be stumped by a port issue.