I have tried everything, any help would be great

[Tazric]

Okies, lets see. I am getting ZONE LOCKED. I have read and spent the last 3 hours fiddling. If I go to whatsmyip.com, I get an IP its static DSL IP. I use a home router with internet IP adress of server at 192.168.2.2.

Right now I am using NAT, with server name as Tazric_World. I have changed that server name a few times but the server selection screen never changes from Tazric_World, im guessing because its in the login server list.

So now I have the following :

Boot5zones.bat


start zone . tazric.no-ip.org 7995 localhost
start zone . tazric.no-ip.org 7996 localhost
start zone . tazric.no-ip.org 7997 localhost
start zone . tazric.no-ip.org 7998 localhost
start zone . tazric.no-ip.org 7999 localhost


LginServer.ini



[LoginServer]
loginserver=eqlogin1.eqemulator.net
loginserver2=eqlogin1.eqemulator.net
loginport=5999
loginport2=5999
worldname=Tazric_World
worldaddress=tazric.no-ip.org
locked=false


[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=
Unavailzone=

[LoginConfig]
ServerMode=Standalone
ServerPort=5999
UplinkAddress=
UplinkPort=
UplinkAccount=
UplinkPassword=


I have tried just about everything and im completely at a loss now, any help would be appreciated. I promise you I have read all the forum posts, even used the server guide to try and no joy :(

Thanks lots,

Taz

[MrDoh]

A few things...

Have you been through the NAT sticky post here?
http://www.everquestserver.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4177

Another words, did you open your ports on the router, and forward them to the appropriate machine running EQEMu? You need to have at least ports 7995-7999 forwarded to the machine running EQEMu, as well as port 9000. (I think that's all of them.)

The other thing is I think (at least the modern 5.x servers) use 5997 as the login port, so in loginserver.ini change your relevant part to this:
[LoginServer]
loginserver=eqlogin1.eqemulator.net
loginserver2=eqlogin2.eqemulator.net
loginport=5997
loginport2=5997

That's all I've seen so far.

Just for what it's worth, on my setup I am able to just use my external ip address, not the domain name, in loginserver.ini and the startup batch file, seems to work ok.
Also in my setup I use the server machines internal ip address (it's 192.168.xx.xx address) instead of localhost or 127.0.0.1. (Actually, I didn't have much luck with either of them.)

Hope it helps some.

Mr Doh