Locked server
 

how do you unlock a server

While in-game, type #unlock. If you want your server to be permanently unlocked, in LoginServer.ini set locked=false. If the server is still locked after you do that and nobody (including GMs) can get in then you have a problem with your zone servers. Either they aren't up or they aren't connected to the world server properly.

i tryed that it was alrady set to false in the INI my world INI is fine no errors, but in looking at my zones i have one "

worldserver connect: connecting to the server failed: TcpConnection::connect(): connect() failed. error: 10060

[error] worldserver.connect() failed!
[status] entering sleep mode

Could you post the contents of your LoginServer.ini and Boot5zone.bat files? If you have a firewall up, make sure you have ports 5997, 9000, and whatever ports you have specified in your boot5zone.bat file forwarded to the machine the EQEmu server is running on.

what do you mean port for my fire wall how do i do that????

boot5zones.bat
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 . 65.173.93.89 7995 192.168.2.100
start zone . 65.173.93.89 7996 192.168.2.100
start zone . 65.173.93.89 7997 192.168.2.100
start zone . 65.173.93.89 7998 192.168.2.100
start zone . 65.173.93.89 7999 192.168.2.100
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=eqlogin1.eqemulator.net
loginserver2=eqlogin2.eqemulator.net
loginserver3=eqlogin3.eqemulator.net
loginport=5997
loginport2=5997
loginport3=5997
worldname=FiresTestEQ1sttime
worldaddress=65.173.93.89
locked=false

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=0
Unavailzone=

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

[ChatChannelServer]
ChatChannelServer=192.168.2.100

Alright your files are fine which means its most likely your firewall. You need to setup port forwarding for ports 5997, 7995-7999, and 9000 to your internal IP of 192.168.2.100. The problem is every firewall/router is different so the procedure on how to actually do it differs from router to router. What you want to do is open up your router's web configuration screen and look for a port forwarding option. Then, you want to input the ports I mentioned above and point them to your internal IP.
Alternatively, you could look for a DMZ or default host option in your router's configuration screen and input your internal 192.168.2.100 IP. That way however is highly insecure and leaves your machine fully open to the internet.

alright i got it up now i'm just having a 1017 error when i go to log in... my server name is groundzero if someone else wants to try and log in.

for anyone trying this the DMZ and forward ports can't be done at the same time....try the forword port then the DMZ.

Yep, DMZ and port forwarding can't be done at the same time, that's why I said alternatively.

Since you are behind a firewall, you may need to setup a domain name for your machine so you can connect. http://2mydns.com is a decent free name service. That site will guide you through all the steps of getting setup. Once you get your domain name setup, you need to edit your HOSTS file. Do a search for that file, on 2000/XP machines its found in /winnt/system32/drivers/etc on the first line put:

127.0.0.1 yourname.2mydns.com

(With yourname being replaced with the domain name you selected when you setup the domain.) Save that file and now you will be able to connect to your own server.

Oops, I also forgot to mention that you'll need to replace all references to your internet IP of 65.173.93.89 with yourname.2mydns.com in your boot5zones.bat and loginserver.ini files.

Also, when i wrote the directions I assumed that the machine your server is running on is also the machine that you run your EQ client on. If that's not the case, then you want the EQ client's HOSTS files to look like this:

192.168.2.100 yourname.2mydns.com