i tried to logintype> minilogin and also turning off the firewall completely with no luck. i checked the version. and it is titanium, but its not showing the build date at 2005, it shows 2010, i suspect this is because this is the fresh titanium install i used to play on EQemu back then. but i deleted all associated files when i stopped playing. so its never been used for live. maybe i need to reinstall titanium and re set everything up?

the only other thing i can thnk of is the mysql entry

update variables set value = "Minilogin" where varname = "LoginType";

Insert into account (name, password, status, minilogin_ip) values ("SuperGreg", "Numba#1!!", 250, "127.0.0.1");

those are the instructions on the write up. the only thing i changed is the username and password portions in mysql. I'm baffled, i should have some time later tonight to mess with it some more. I appreciate all your help thus far!

As far as the mysql settings, I would visually double-check those manually using Navicat or HeidiSQL. I doubt that's the
problem though, especially if you didn't receive any errors when you ran the query/or sourced it in.

I have read that the emu doesn't support as many different client versions as it used to. Someone knowledgeable about
that would need to answer about your client version issue. (Is your Ti install cd-rom based or digital-download?)


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Here's how to tell if you have the proper version: http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ClientVersions

I just re-installed titanium from CD's. luckily i bought the cd version back when it first came out. haha. my client version now says 2005 oct 31 like its supposed to. I set my eqhost file up, and started it back up, with the same results... grrr. maybe its the minilogin? maybe I should try and use a different guide?

I just downloaded Heidi SQL, and this may be a stupid question, but how might i validate my settings? I looked at the peq database, and tried looking at account and account_ip , but i saw no entries about accoutn settings i entered. I have never used SQL or any connected tools, so help with that would be appreciated.

dbg file

2012-06-22 23:38:56 Starting EverQuest (Build Oct 31 2005 10:33:37)
2012-06-22 23:38:56 Timezone: UTC+2h00m
2012-06-22 23:38:56 Loading graphics DLL.
2012-06-22 23:38:56 Parsing INI file .\eqclient.ini
2012-06-22 23:38:56 INI file .\eqclient.ini loaded.
2012-06-22 23:38:57 Initializing timers.
2012-06-22 23:39:00 Checking critical files.
2012-06-22 23:39:00 Initializing WinSock.
2012-06-22 23:39:00 Enumerating 3D devices.
2012-06-22 23:39:00 Found adapter #0 - NVIDIA GeForce G210M (8.15.11.8688)
2012-06-22 23:39:00 Adapter #0 - NVIDIA GeForce G210M :
2012-06-22 23:39:00 32Bit = 1, D32 = 0, D24 = 1, D16 = 1
2012-06-22 23:39:00 16Bit(565) = 1, D32 = 0, D24 = 1, D16 = 1
2012-06-22 23:39:00 16Bit(1555) = 0, D32 = 0, D24 = 0, D16 = 0
2012-06-22 23:39:00 Initializing keypress handler.
2012-06-22 23:39:00 Parsing INI file .\defaults.ini
2012-06-22 23:39:00 INI file .\defaults.ini loaded.
2012-06-22 23:39:00 Loading keyboard tables.
2012-06-22 23:39:00 Creating window.
2012-06-22 23:39:00 Checking display driver version.
2012-06-22 23:39:01 Activating window.
2012-06-22 23:39:01 Picking a default resolution, desktop is 1366 x 768, 32 bits
2012-06-22 23:39:01 Ratio is 1.78
2012-06-22 23:39:01 Resolution was capped at 1280 x 720
2012-06-22 23:39:01 Resolution verified 1280 x 720, 32 bits ... diff was 1000 from 0 modes
2012-06-22 23:39:01 Resolution selected 1280 x 720, 32 bits
2012-06-22 23:39:01 CRender::InitDevice: Using 32bit mode.
2012-06-22 23:39:01 CRender::InitDevice: Using vsync 0.
2012-06-22 23:39:01 CRender::InitDevice: Using 24bit depth buffer with 8 bit stencil.
2012-06-22 23:39:01 CRender::InitDevice: HardwareTnL Enabled.
2012-06-22 23:39:01 Using hardware vertex shaders.
2012-06-22 23:39:02 Initializing render system.
2012-06-22 23:39:02 Trilinear Mipmapping available.
2012-06-22 23:39:02 Vertex Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:39:02 Pixel Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:39:02 Initializing engine internals.
2012-06-22 23:39:02 CRender::InitDevice completed successfully.
2012-06-22 23:39:02 Parsing INI file ./eqlsUIConfig.ini
2012-06-22 23:39:02 INI file ./eqlsUIConfig.ini loaded.
2012-06-22 23:39:47 Trilinear Mipmapping available.
2012-06-22 23:39:47 Vertex Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:39:47 Pixel Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:39:47 Trilinear Mipmapping available.
2012-06-22 23:39:47 Vertex Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:39:47 Pixel Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:39:48 Trilinear Mipmapping available.
2012-06-22 23:39:48 Vertex Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:39:48 Pixel Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:39:51 Trilinear Mipmapping available.
2012-06-22 23:39:51 Vertex Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:39:51 Pixel Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:40:00 Trilinear Mipmapping available.
2012-06-22 23:40:00 Vertex Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:40:00 Pixel Shader Version: 3.0
2012-06-22 23:40:02 Trilinear Mipmapping available.
2012-06-22 23:40:02 Vertex Shader Version: 3.0

according to the reference material, the client should be supported.

(Using HeidiSQL) In the left window, 'open' peq and select the 'accounts' table.

This should bring up the table format in the right window. There are multiple tabs here..select 'Data' to see the actual table values.

If you don't have anything here, then your sourcing didn't take... You can manually enter this data since you're already in the right
place.

Just right-click and select enter new row, then enter the values according to their order in the 'INSERT' command (i.e., status = 250,
minilogin_ip = 127.0.0.1, etc...) If a field is left blank, then the default value will be used. (If a field absolutely requires a value, then
you will either an error message, or the entire action will not be processed. If you're editing a table directly, then don't use single or
double quotes..they're only needed when executing a query command.)

Try this and see where you are.


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Ok, so under the data tab, It displays...

id:1 name:root charname:(blank) sharedplat:0 password:**** status:0 lsaccountid:NULL gmspeed:0 revoked:0 karma:0 minilogin_ip: 127.0.0.1 hideme:0 rulesflag:0 suspendeduntil: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 timecreation:0

I mad the username/password simple and close to my sql credentials just for testing, i also tried making accounts with 250 for the gm priviledges and 0, this one happens to be 0, but it seems like all the required data is present, I have no idea why I cannot connect to the minilogin server. Are there any other logs I can provide that would assist in troubleshooting?

i dont know if this has anything to do with it, but when i open up my eqemu folder and look at the login_opcodes, it says public server opcodes at the top. i tried searching around, and there are a few guides that say to move the opcodes.conf file to the eqemu folder. so i tried that, just to see, and it didnt work. just a thought

When dealing with minilogin the account password to login means absolutely nothing as minilogin uses IP authentication. I think you still have to type something as the password but it can be anything under the sun. Since you are having trouble anyway you might want to consider doing a setup using EQEmuLoginServer. That method is still private but it works off of user name and password which is better.

Private Server Setup

I agree with bd about the public login server..that's what I use.

The login_opcodes.conf is for the login server. Opcodes.conf is for the world server. Go back and verify that you copied all
of the required files to the ..\emu\ directory. Basically anything *.conf since there have been a few added since the guides
were written.

Check this post out too..just in case:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...0&postcount=14

(I didn't see those errors in your posts, but never hurts when you're looking.)


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So... I have tried numerous things, and finally got frustrated. So i deleted everything I had so far, and started fresh with a different write-up using the public login (eqemuloginserver). well.. long story short, I am having the same problem as before, I cannot connect to the login server, and it seems no matter what guide I view, there are multiple discrepancies in each write-up (expected from write-ups originating in 2009/2010). At this point I'm not sure what to do. for instance it said in that particular write-up to change the eqemu_login.xml.full file.. well there were 4 of the same file in the SVN download.. and it didn't specify if I was supposed to move that file to the actual server folder or not. It also says that there should be a build folder that has all necessary folders that need to be moved out. it doesn't. Regardless I guess, I can't grasp why this login server is having so many problems, the firewall is disabled, and I was sure that had to be an issue, but no changes.

I am using an Asus laptop running windows 7, 4GB ram 1.3GHz Dual Core intel processor. There is a geforce G210M graphics card with 512MB dedicated memory. If you could use any other info on my machine or my setup that already hasn't been providedto, let me know, I will provide it. I would really like to be able to play EQ locally, and eventually do some server customization, but at this point I'm stumped. I've been combing these forums looking for possible issues for days to no avail. thanks in advance.