Howto set publiclogin server on your own computer..
 

Note! this is not intended to be a complete guide.. its just the part of publiclogin server which many people is having problems on.

First few things to do first.. you have to find out your ip. in nearly all win9x computer winipcfg works just fine. I dont know how NT works but win2k and win xp its right click my network icon. click the connection icon and right list should show your ip.

or take the easy way and visit this site: http://whatismyip.com

**Updated**

MarkK:
The important thing is to make sure that the IP you are using in your eqhosts.txt file matches the IP for the account you are authorizing/reauthorizing. (e.g use 127.0.0.1 if eqhosts.txt uses localhost/127.0.0.1, use 192.x.x.x if eqhosts.txt uses 192.x.x.x etc...) This assumes you're adding the account from the same machine as the world/login servers.

***end update***

First look and download lurker's batch file its extremely well made and made my setting up server much simplier.

choice.exe is pretty easy to find at internet or at microsoft site.

Now make new batch file named "Myloginset.bat"

put this in the batch file:

make sure to edit it to proper settings incuding ip etc. Important: ip for login ( not server but login account ) MUST BE SAME AS EQHOST.TXT SERVER IP if youre running client at same computer as server! **updated with markk's new info**

"MyServer" , "MyLogin" and "MyOtherLogin" can be changed to anything but i think server and any login account name cant be same.

you can add more accounts to automate it up to 12 ( or 11 if server counts ) just make sure pause is after each login other than last one... example shows 2 accounts being set.

make sure this new batch and lurkers is in same dir. run the new batch file, when the new window appears press a then z when back in choices menu.

now run all servers see if theres any errors etc. if theres NO error then leave the servers up while doing next steps.

go back to first window and press any key. a new window will appear again but this time just press b then z when back in menu window. repeat till youre competely done with accounts.

now start eq and log in and enjoy the fun!

Interesting bit about the 127.0.0.1 I wonder why the world server auth works fine as the ehternet card's IP.

That may help a lot of people.

i wonder if it can be made a sticky? it might help people configure publiclogin.

lurker can you append the batch file ip here?

Thanks markk for finding out exactly how it works heh i checked my eqhost.txt and indeed its set to 127.0.0.1 thats why i needed to set 127.0.0.1

i hope this guide helps you guys set publiclogin heh

baffled
 

I did everything from the instructions including putting my ip in the eqhost and all that so the login server can come up. I get the program running fine but when I go to start up the worldserver I always get the 'ERROR: can't connect to yourip. any ideas on how to rectify this?

-Bennu

hmm few possiblies:

firewall?

are you in a local network and using internet ip when should use local network ip? ( 196.168.*.* )

did you set loginserver.ini with proper ip?

If the error is actually like you said, you didn't change yourIP to your actual IP (most likely something like 192.168.0.3)

Also don't post a problem in more than 1 thread

ok I got the public login 1.01 working last night using the suggestions that you guys gave me (props to you) now I just need to know how do I transfer to 1.02 from 1.01 with the least amount of work etc. would it be like starting over? or just replacing 1 file or something and keeping the rest. any help is greatly appreciated.

-Bennu