EQEMu server running... BUT....

[Maldian]

everytime I open everquest using the patchme way and it locks up everytime. I get to the login screen and enter my username and password that I put in the setup of EQEmu server. After I click connect.... it locks up completely and I have to CTRL-ALT-Del to get out of it. Any ideas? Do I need to post all the info from the data files I edited on setting up the server?

I am running a local server and playing on the same server. This is for personal adventure purposes.

[animepimp]

Post all the outputs you get from world.exe and minilogin.exe, the zone server output is not needed since you can't select a character so they aren't getting used. And post your eqhost.txt file.

[Maldian]

minilogin

[LoginConfig] block not found in LoginServer.ini
MiniLoginAccounts.ini read.
Server mode: Standalone
Login server listening on port:5999

eqhost.txt file

[Registration Servers]
Host=localhost:5999
[Login Servers]
Host=localhost:5999

Boot5zones
REM: ****Read this first!!!****

REM: This file requires your real IP in the place of "YourIP" when you are connecting
REM: To the EQEmu Loginserver.

REM: When you are using minilogin, Replace all IP Addresses to say 127.0.0.1

REM: If you still get errors try using localhost instead of 127.0.0.1

REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off

if NOT exist spells_us.txt goto NOSPELL

start zone . localhost 7995 localhost
start zone . localhost 7996 localhost
start zone . localhost 7997 localhost
start zone . localhost 7998 localhost
start zone . localhost 7999 localhost
exit
cls

:NOSPELL
echo You did not copy the spells_us.txt from your everquest directory to this one. Please do so or zones will crash on startup.
PAUSE

REM:---------------END------------------------

LoginServer.ini

### --- This file tells world.exe what loginserver to connect to.
### --- Leave the account and password field BLANK.

### --- Public Login is un-supported as is LAN playing. We recommend using the eqemulator.net Loginserver ALWAYS.

### --- NOTE: You can NOT use the word "Server" in worldname.
### --- NOTE2: the word "Server" is added to each server automatically.

# READ README.TXT
[LoginServer]
loginserver=127.0.0.1
loginport=5999
worldname=my minilogin test
worldaddress=127.0.0.1
locked=false
account=
password=


[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=0
Unavailzone=

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





NOTE - I cant seem to copy and paste all of the stuff from world.exe for some reason.

[Maldian]

Also if there is any way I could chat with you Anime... please let me know. I am confused about some of this.... yes I am a newbie...

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[animepimp]

Fomr your minilogin output it looks like your server is never connecting to your login server and neither is your client since the last thing it says is that its listening. You have obviously configured something incorrectly so post all the ini files you have edited.

[Maldian]

Ok trying again....

Boot5zones file
REM: ****Read this first!!!****

REM: This file requires your real IP in the place of "YourIP" when you are connecting
REM: To the EQEmu Loginserver.

REM: When you are using minilogin, Replace all IP Addresses to say 127.0.0.1

REM: If you still get errors try using localhost instead of 127.0.0.1

REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off

if NOT exist spells_us.txt goto NOSPELL

start zone . localhost 7995 localhost
start zone . localhost 7996 localhost
start zone . localhost 7997 localhost
start zone . localhost 7998 localhost
start zone . localhost 7999 localhost
exit
cls

:NOSPELL
echo You did not copy the spells_us.txt from your everquest directory to this one. Please do so or zones will crash on startup.
PAUSE

REM:---------------END------------------------


LoginServer.ini file
### --- This file tells world.exe what loginserver to connect to.
### --- Leave the account and password field BLANK.

### --- Public Login is un-supported as is LAN playing. We recommend using the eqemulator.net Loginserver ALWAYS.

### --- NOTE: You can NOT use the word "Server" in worldname.
### --- NOTE2: the word "Server" is added to each server automatically.

# READ README.TXT
[LoginServer]
loginserver=127.0.0.1
loginport=5999
worldname=my minilogin test
worldaddress=127.0.0.1
locked=false
account=maldian
password=wendy619


[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=0
Unavailzone=

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

EQHost file
[Registration Servers]
Host=localhost:5999
[Login Servers]
Host=localhost:5999

db.ini file
# READ README.TXT!

[Database]
host=127.0.0.1
user=
password=
database=eq
compression=off


### --- This file tells world.exe what computer mySQL is on. Host should
### --- be left "localhost" unless mysql is on a differant computer than world.exe.

Ok that is all I have done...

[animepimp]

[LoginConfig] block not found in LoginServer.ini


Since you have this message in your output but that block is in LoginServer.ini this means you have extra spaces in that file or something. Go through every line of every ini file and make sure that there are no spaces at the ends of any line. And what version of the server are you running?

[Maldian]

5.6

[Maldian]

ok now I have an error in my world.exe that says

[ERROR] [Worldserver] block not found in ./LoginServer.ini

What is that?

[animepimp]

Well 5.6 is compatible with minilogin so there goes one of the other things I thought might be going wrong. Did it help anything to check for spaces a the ends of lines? And trying getting rid of one of the two blank lines before [WorldServer] and changing it to [Worldserver]. Either of those could possibly mess it up.

[Maldian]

Yeah I checked the blanks... it fixed the minilogin... but now World.exe is messed up.

[animepimp]

Ok trying again....

EQHost file
[Registration Servers]
Host=localhost:5999
[Login Servers]
Host=localhost:5999


Doh I jsut noticed the worst error of them all. You are using the eqhost format for the latest patch which I am assuming is what version of the client you have. But Minilogin and 5.6 are not at all compatible with that patch. The latest client can only connect to 5.7 DR4 servers. So follow the 5.7 DR4 minilogin guide in the tutorial forum, theres a few things you ahve to do different.

[Maldian]

ok gonna start over... thanks... will update soon!

[Maldian]

Ok minilogin works. world.exe only has one error which is the following:

Error: EMuShareMem: DLLLoadItems: !cbDBLoadItems
[ERROR]Error: Could not load item data. But ignoring

[Maldian]

Ok, the server is running complete BUT I still lockup when I try to login to everquest using the patchme exe

any ideas?

[Maldian]

The following is a screenshot of the settings I have. Everytime I boot up eqgame.exe patchme it locks up. Anyone help me with this?

http://adventurerslair.sphosting.com/setings.JPG

[NecromancerZ]

Maldian are you running any kind of firewall in the background?

[Maldian]

No firewall running at all

[NecromancerZ]

Ok I had this before and it was my EQhost file make sure it looks like this

[Registration Servers]
{
"Localhost:5999"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"Localhost:5999"
}

[Maldian]

I am to the point where I will set up my computer to have remote help if someone can help me. I have PCAnywhere and can set it up. I am about to pull my hair out with this.

[Maldian]

Necro... I tried that again and it still didn't work.

[Maldian]

I also have netmeeting if someone can help.

[motamuffin]

try this

[LoginServer]
Host=eqemulator.net:5995

in eqhost