Minilogin problems
 

I have set up a LAN server (as described in the Big LAN book) so that me and my friends can play and do what we want on it. As soon as I fixed all the problems just trying to login and such, I tried to get more than just me on to the server (character select) (using minilogin, because the big LAN book said it would allow 8 clients and I found a thread describing how to get more than one login on the minilogin), I found that my friend could not log into the server. He got the following error (world.exe): My miniloginaccounts.ini is as such: [where _ = space]

If anyone knows how to fix this problem or could just explain how to do it without the minilogin.exe, your help would be greatly appreciated...

Did you setup an account for him in the database? If the account is setup make sure he is typing the correct account password info...

Here is the account creation command for mysql if you need it.

INSERT INTO account (id, name, charname, packencrypt, sharedplat, password, status, lsaccount_id, gmspeed, revoked) VALUES (1, 'eqemu', '', '', 0, 'eqemu', 250, NULL, 0, 0);

Change the 1 to the next account number and also change the eqemu to reflect the new account and password you want him to login with. This should match the values in the MiniLoginAccounts.ini

I used MySQL-Front to mess with the database, I suppose I should try it at the command line to do it though.

Edit: They match exactly with the MiniloginAccounts.ini.

Edit2: I don't know how I failed to mention this, but EQ gives him a 1017 error, I have read up on this error and nothing seems to solve such a problem.

Hold on. The img tag isn't working...

http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/.../accounts2.bmp

Anyone have any ideas?

192.168.1.55_bopo119_******_
192.168.1.51_garrett_********_


log ->
192.168.1.51: Wrong name/pass: name='eqemu'

192.168.1.51 should connect with login = 'garrett', not 'eqemu'

As my friend just reminded me, I was able to login to his name through my computer. So there is some sort of IP address conflict... should we perhaps turn the DHCP off on the router?

not sure if all routers allow it or not, but netgear routers you can assign a static ip per mac address. could try that..

Re: Minilogin problems
 

I was just experimenting with this to see if I could figure out your problem. I found that I needed a blank line at the end of the file to get it to work with two accounts, i.e. press Enter at the end of the line that contains

Then save the file. Without the blank line it tries to login with account 'eqemu', and if you haven't got an account with that name in your db, it will probably 1017.

Went back and looked at my setup for local lan server and sure enough you will need that blank line for more than one account. Looks like it just skips over any account info on the last line of the file...

While everyone has their thinking caps on, with regards to this subject. Is it possible for two clients to connect from the same IP and somehow be distinguished between the two, such as on EQLive when someone 2-boxes? I have a mate, and his boy who both connect from the same internal network, through a router, and thus the same IP.

Right now they just keep their characters in the same account, but it would be nice if they could be kept "seperate" somehow.

Is this at all possible? Thanks.

it's not possible with the current minilogin setup