enable remote access for mongoDB server
Solution 1:
Problem solved.
Apparently when adding an IP to the bind_ip=127.0.0.1 line, the next IP should be the one of that same machine.
If the IP of the machine running the mongo server is 10.0.0.201, so we should change the line into bind_ip=127.0.0.1,10.0.0.201. This way other machines that are on the same network will be able to connect to its mongo server.