Bind failed: Address already in use

Question

I am attempting to bind a socket to a port below:

if( bind(socket_desc,(struct sockaddr *) &server, sizeof(server)) < 0)
{
    perror(\"bind failed.         


        

Answer 1

I was also facing that problem, but I resolved it. Make sure that both the programs for client-side and server-side are on different projects in your IDE, in my case NetBeans. Then assuming you're using localhost, I recommend you to implement both the programs as two different projects.