Newly installed windows GUI node offline/misconfigured

To be able to connect to your dashboard from another machine, you need to uncomment the console.address: option:

# server address of the api gateway and frontend app
# console.address: 127.0.0.1:14002

and change it to listen on any interface:

# server address of the api gateway and frontend app
console.address: :14002

Please use Notepad++ to edit the config file. Do not forget to save it after modification and restart the storagenode service either from the Services applet or from the elevated PowerShell:

Restart-Service storagenode

You also need to allow this port in your inbound rules on your firewall on that PC.

But it’s better to use a more secure method, like this one:

or

If the destination PC is different from the first one, and you did not change the listening port with the server.address: option of your second node, then you need to forward 28968 TCP+UDP to 28967 port and IP of your second PC, however, the contact.external-address: option should have your external address with 28968 port.