There, you answered all the questions and got us to where we need to be. Remember when you edited the config and named your server? If you did everything right, you should find that name in the server list- that's you. Select it and you are on it.

I must be missing something cause I do not see my server in the list ... all the ports are forwarded so I not sure whats missing ... that guild for editing the eqEmu config is a bit confusing to me.

Did you use the short config file or the full one?

If you aren't showing up in the list, it is probably port 9000 (not that the rest are right, but 9000 would be the problem for that)... make sure that 9000 UDP is being forwarded.

Are you also running windows firewall?

that was it thanks ... that you for the help and being very patient with me

You're very welcome.

Have fun!

well crud thought I was done ... one more question... I went to log on with my other computer and it will not connect I see the server but does not connect to it ... only the computer that runs the server will connect... where do I go to correct this? As far as I know all the ports or forwarded

1017 error?

Double check your zone ports being forwarded... the full range and they are UDP

If you plan to have other computers on your network connect to the server you should use the server's actual ip address in your config. So, instead of 127.0.0.1 use 192.168.0.whatever. You can see what the address is by running ipconfig on the command line.