Public server problems

[astemus]

Ok, i'm trying to help a friend set up a server... we finally got it up and running, but she is the only person that can connect, from the computer it's running on... I can't log in, i get a 1017 error trying to log in... What could be causing this? There is no firewall or router, and i can connect to other servers, just not hers.... any ideas?

[Lurker_005]

If she runs XP check the software firewall also.

Is she using a public IP in her configs, or 127.0.0.1/localhost
www.whatismyip.com will tell her what IP to use in the configs.

[astemus]

Nope she's running xp, and the firewall is disabled...

And the ip is correct, verified it with windows (via the connection status) unless this could be wrong for any reason...

I'm really at a loss, i'm gonna double check and make sure the connection isn't coming from another computer on the network, but i don't think that's the case...

Thanks for the ideas though, any other thoughts?

[cannonalldex]

I'm really at a loss, i'm gonna double check and make sure the connection isn't coming from another computer on the network, but i don't think that's the case...

i am far from being a computer expert, in fact i have only messed with this stuff for about two weeks, but

after spending a week on the 1017 issue. i have come to the conclusion that when you are trying to connect to your own network (external ip) THROUGH the internet, your computer fails to read the internal IP address (192.168.0.***) the same as it would read an internet address (68.103.12.***). when your information is being passed back to your server computer there is an argument of the same external IP address trying to access a duplicate IP address simultaneosly sending packets in an echo effect until the computer (client) times out, causing a 1017 error: loss of connection. Ultimately there was never a connection to be lost.
think about this when you connect your computers through a hub and use sharing. you cannot have two computers with the same ip address communicate with each other.

sry if this sounds out of it, but i only slept for a couple hours in the last few days. feel free to comment on the post and after a day of sleep i will go at it again :)

[Mortamer]

if she even has an internal IP like 192.168.0.x then she has a router (i'm pretty sure). Tell her to go to 192.168.0.1 and try and find the virtual server/port forwarding section (might be in another section called advanced) and forward the ports "7990 to 7999" (for 10 zones, change 7990 to 7980 for 20 zones), ports "5999 to 5999" (I think), and ports "9000". That should do the trick! If thats confusing, reply and I can detail it more. (I didn't have much sleep either last night)