# MONAILabel cannot connect: ConnectionRefusedError: \[WinError 10061\] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

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**Created:** [June 24, 2022, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/monailabel-cannot-connect-connectionrefusederror-winerror-10061-no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/24021 "2022-06-24T10:20:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/monailabel-cannot-connect-connectionrefusederror-winerror-10061-no-connection-could-be-made-because-the-target-machine-actively-refused-it/24021/10 "2022-06-28T17:50:08Z")

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I don’t have experience running MonaiLabel through the python environment, I only used it through docker which simplified things quite a bit.

Perhaps you can take a look at @rbumm [explanations here:](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-start-with-monailabel-for-new-models/21063/88)

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