Experiencing problems with Boot5Zones9x
 

# READ README.TXT!

[Database]
host=localhost
user=******
password=*****
database=eq
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[LoginServer]
loginserver=localhost
worldname=jobus
locked=false
account=
password=
worldaddress=localhost
loginport=5999

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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: zone9x.exe is for use with Windows 98 and ME only.
REM: If you are running Windows NT/2000 or XP use ZoneNT.exe

REM:--------------Start-----------------------

@echo off
start zone9x . 127.0.0.1 7995 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . 127.0.0.1 7996 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . 127.0.0.1 7997 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . 127.0.0.1 7998 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . 127.0.0.1 7999 127.0.0.1
exit
cls


REM:---------------END------------------------

Minilog executes without error, as does World.exe. However, when I run Boot5Zones.Win9x.bat....It has trouble connecting to the world server....as seen here..
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Using database 'eq' at localhost
Loading items & NPCs...done.
Spells loaded from 'spdat.eff'.
Loading guild ranks...done.
Loading faction data...done.
Unable to get the host name. Error: 11001InitWorldServer failed
Entering sleep mode
---------------------------------------------------------------------

I run the programs in the correct sequence as defined in the readme file of eqemu. I recieve this and only this error while attempting to initialize the emu. The error doesn't seem so menacing to me...so I'm assuming it's something very simple that I'm missing. Soooo closeeeeee, thanks for help!

First off.. What OS?


Second... change your first colum of 127.0.0.1 to the IP of your PC's NIC. I have better luck that way.

Do the same thing in your loginserver.ini for Worldaddress=

OS
 

Thanks for the quick reponse.
I'm on WIN98SE,
I'l go try your suggestion now...eh
what's an NIC again? lol, I'm kind of a inter-newb-mediate.

tried it
 

Ok, I went to WINIPCFG and used the IP address that was displayed with my network card. Same problem.

ok now repost your 3 files.

I have had similar problems in the past... I too am using Windows98 SE...

Look through the two threads I have linked below if what I'm about to suggest does not work...

In your Boot5Zones.Win9x.bat file, change the 127.0.0.1 entries (ALL of them) to say "localhost" without the quotation marks and try again... Also, for purposes of testing, it may do you well to create an alternate file in the following manner...

Create a file named Boot1Zone.Win9x.bat... Simply delete the last four lines that begin with "start" in your Boot5Zones file and Save As the new file name. Whatever errors, if any, you get in the ONE zone9x window you will also get in the other four, so for test purposes the other four are not necessary.

If that doesn't work, read the threads linked to below:

http://eqemu.sourceforge.net/forums/...;threadid=1371

http://eqemu.sourceforge.net/forums/...;threadid=1435

Hope this helps... good luck.

Kyouchou

P.S. A NIC is a Network Interface Card... it's used for making broadband internet connections and LAN connections.

[Database]
host=localhost
user=jobus
password=jobus
database=eq
---------------------------------

[LoginServer]
loginserver=localhost
worldname=jobus
locked=false
account=
password=
worldaddress=CN791252-G.FRNCHT07.DE.COMCAST.NET
loginport=5999

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@echo off
start zone9x . CN791252-G.FRNCHT07.DE.COMCAST.NET 7995 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . CN791252-G.FRNCHT07.DE.COMCAST.NET 7996 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . CN791252-G.FRNCHT07.DE.COMCAST.NET 7997 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . CN791252-G.FRNCHT07.DE.COMCAST.NET 7998 127.0.0.1
start zone9x . CN791252-G.FRNCHT07.DE.COMCAST.NET 7999 127.0.0.1
exit
cls

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I also changed the host name to the IP address of the nic too

Oh yeah... when useing minilogin.. put

account=eqemu
password=eqemu
in your loginserver.ini

k
 

k did

CN791252-G.FRNCHT07.DE.COMCAST.NET = WRONG


You need an IP address of your PC's NIC. NIC = Network Interface Card. or Network Card for sort.

IP eg. 192.168.0.1

winipcfg should show you this.. just make sure you select your correct NIC in the drop down menu.

Thanks for the reply Koyo.

Meli - I tried the host name after I tried the IP Address of my NIC. Same result.

fixed it seems
 

I read through the threads Koyo linked, and I changed 127.0.0.1 to localhost on ALL entries in the win9x.bat file...and it worked! Thanks much for the help guys =)

As much of a warm fuzzy feeling useing localhost instead of 127.0.0.1 gives most people.. DO NOT USE localhost.

This is why. While in fact they should in all cases have the EXACT same effect. Only one of the two can possible in any way be wrong. And that is localhost. Localhost is a name taged onto the IP address of 127.0.0.1 While 127.0.0.1 is ALWAYS (by IP4 international standards) the computer you working on. While on the other hand.. anyone could set the word localhost in there c:\windows\host file (or where ever/what ever OS) to point to ANY IP.

If this makes sence to you good.... use 127.0.0.1. If it made no sence at all, I'm sorry... use 127.0.0.1 :-)


Ok.. now lets see what is wrong here :-)

Computers don't always make sense, nor do they always work according to the way they are supposed to...

For some people, myself included, 127.0.0.1 DOES NOT WORK, period. Yet for some unexplicable reason "localhost" works great (shrugs).

If you can figure out why that is, all the better, but by all rights they both SHOULD work the same... but they don't.

Kyouchou

Most likely cause 127.0.0.1 might not work...


127.O.O.1 <-- letter O instead of number zero
extra or missing peroid
comma instead of peroid


Aka typo's