Zone server disconnect
 

ok I can get into the char select screen but when I try to go into the zone it first said zone unavailable, then it crashed with a bunch of disconnected text over itself. When I boot the zones.bat they go to sleep.... are they supposed to?

That's right, they go to sleep until the world server detects a player entering a zone. Then they tell the zone server which zone to boot up.

I'm sure other people can answer your questions far better than I, but one "gotcha" I found was router settings. I run behind a Linksys router/firewall, and I had to make sure that ports 7995-7999 (one for each of the zone servers) was being redirected to the IP of the PC running the server. If they're not, then the client will crash when you try to zone in. If you add more zone servers (like me -- I'm running ten at the moment) then you need to make sure that all the ports you use are being redirected (like 7990-7999 in my case).

WC

hmm
 

ok thanks for the info, and I am pretty sure I am not behind a firewall. any help would be appreciated

ahem
 

Ok, I am going to clarify alittle. I go to the char select screen and pick one of the 3 chars I made. and with all 3 when I try to enter I immediately get a something is not reoding and you have been disconnected text over itself. I am guessing thi means my zone servers arent connecting. This is on my own server by the way.

you need to post your loginserver.ini, boot5zones.bat, and world.exe and zones.bat output

Ok
 

to post my boot5zones.bat I am guessing I need notepad which mine is corrupt I will try to associate it with wordpad, and I have tryed fixing this problem many times but Microsoft just screws me over.

when I close the world and zones it has a odd memory error but it is system related and doesnt seem to effect anything as far as I can tell.
hmm the end of my zone looks diffrent than normal, I will run it again to see if it does that again

It all looks fine to me, can you post your miniloginserver.ini and db.ini also?

I dont know what you mean by miniloginserver.ini but here is the miniloginaccounts please clarify...

Sorry I am at work and forgot the name, lol, thats what I wanted. Everything looks fine, don't know what your problem could be :(

Actually I just noticed you posted the fresh World.exe and Zone.exe files, we need you to post the output of the files after you try to login and get the errors. Also you can try deletign your account from the database and logging in again.

ok brb with that I just posted a little more info on nilars general support thread

ok
 

only the world server had any changes I have to leave for like 3 hours though and dont have time to read it but here it is

Hmm darn minilogin.... lol

I'm not real sure what to tell you. But if you wanted to make your server private (without having to fool with minilogin) all you would have to do is use the EqEmu login servers and set all of your IPs in loginserver and boot5zone to localhost and you would be the only one able to connect. Maybe this would fix the problem if you minilogin settings arn't right.

This is one problem....looks like your boot5zones.bat is not setup right. "YourIP" needs to be 127.0.0.1

hmm any idea on how to take that last part off?

you need to edit it, since your notepad.exe is trashed try opening command prompt and typing edit

hmm my ip is set to localhost and thanks for the tip i forgot about edit command I am just getting the hang of dos again. I will change it from localhost to 127.0.0.1 and see how it works

You don't need to do that, localhost and 127.0.0.1 are basically the same thing.


I don't think you understand what I am saying.

Inside your boot5zones.bat it should look like this

not like this:

ahah it looks like this your ip 7995 127.0.0.1 gonna try again thanks

well now my problam matchs my thread title *sigh* thankfully what you said got me past the error messages to the load screen then it crashed and this is what the zone server said

that looks like a database error, looks like all your .ini and .exe files are ok now though. Sorry i don't know much about MySQL :)

Maybe someone else will post a possible solution to this, one thing you might try is to delete your "eq" database and recreate it again.

*sigh* ok I will give it a try so all I need to do is repeat the steps of setting up a server but just the database right?
Or do I just need to recreate the mysql db that I made with the cmd line?

(Arg guess I will have to recreate my items, oh well)

Go into c:\mysql\data and delete the "eq" folder, then follow the steps here http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13403 from where it says:

for creating the database

sorry for asking so many questions but I know there are alot of Dbs out there to create the mysql one with which do you use?

This is the one I use.

http://mwnpcmovdb.myftp.org/MW055_alpha_02.zip

now I am getting a 1017 error, I believe this is a problem with loading the db I just loaded but before I try loading the one you gave me maybe you could confirm it for me here is what happens that I believe causes the 1017 [Status] Using database 'eq' at localhost

I would try manually adding your account into the db if it is not in there and if it is then delete your account.

um I wouldnt know how to do that so i am trying the Db you gave me, do you have any Idea where that thread is that lists the best Dbs for now? I am looking for 1 that has items on merchants and other such things, I know some servers have that and some dont does this one have that in it?

The one she gave you is the best one you will find at the moment

hmm are you sure? ok the one I had was bigger i thought bigger was better lol but ok thanks hmm well trying this one didnt help with that anyway....I will try manully adding my account but I am not sure how to do it but I think I might.....be able to figure it out real quick.

Yep thats the best DB atm trust me.

As for adding your account manually. Go into 3rd Party Tools forum and download EQAdmin. It is a program used to edit databases and very easy to use. You can add your account from there.

well I just got through adding it through my command line but, that prog sounds nice I will go grab it for the future, problem is I dont think it did anything after adding it.

wee I must 'ave done something with that command line, or It might have been deleting the chars from the old account....doesnt matter to me never got to use em, but nilar I was wondering do you know if eqadmin has a tutorial it looks real nice and all but it doesnt seem to see my eq directory and I must be setting the preferences up wrong. but what i really wanted to ask was how you know jezebell is female lol thanks alot guys

Under FQadmin.ini

I got the icones folder from Sandy's Loot Editor. They were included. Download it here


Erm I was just assuming that jezebell is a female since it sounds more feminine than masculine, I guess i could be wrong :D

yeah I guess the only thing i was missing was icons heh thanks

I would have thought so too...or maybe it's a character's name from EQ that a guy played or something (hehe)...
8)

Hehe, I will tell you the story:

I got a girlfriend and she was mad all the time that I was playing EQ so I let her create a char on my account to play and then she wanted to play more than me, lol. Anyway we broke up and I just kept playing the char as a main and it kinda just stuck lol. Thats pretty much it.

hmmmmm

Note to Self: Jezebell IS a he :D

hehe I thought you were male,I can tell these things some times
"Doo-dad! Hee Hee Hee"
-Pikel Boulderstone