LOL! Shawn, all that information was posted in the original post
But you're right, I didn't mention I had attempted the l/p with and without, but when I wasn't connecting to the login server (and I had attempted set up with the minilogin prior to using the eqemu servers) I thought I would give it a shot and put the l & p in - after that, I was suddenly able to connect. In retrospect, I think it was something else I did that made it connect but I didn't exactly document every step I took to solve my problems. LOL. (In hindsight, I should've even if only for personal sake). The only thing about my connection that might have thrown me (but was actually answered in a Linux post) was about my nic IP versus my PPPOE Dynamic IP (A royal pain in the butt as you have to go in and adjust all your ips in the loginserver.ini and the boot5zones.bat). I tried both IPs but my original theory of using the PPPOE Client IP (not the server IP that is also listed and I tried) was the correct one. Like I mentioned in the post before this one, once I was able to actually connect and click on my server - I could create a character but couldn't stay connected to my server and would be booted. That I discovered in another post dated some time ago about datarate. Once I made that adjustment, everything worked. Now that I finally managed all of that, I found a DB that worked (without crashing me) and now I"m playing with EQAdmin - which reminds me, I have a question relating to world building that I'll post in that forum.
But just for future reference, I am in tech support and have been for sixteen years. Trust me, I actually READ the readme files. I refuse to put a program on my computer until I *have* read them and understand what they're trying to say. Although I have to admit, that one line you had in the readme that states only put admin given login and password threw me for a bit there. You didn't exactly say that it *wasn't* the login and password that you create for the purposes of logging into the login server.
Regardless, my issues are resolved and now all I have to deal with are some aesthetics in the database (oh how I miss pathing
) Hmmm, I have another question now. hehe. I'll go post them. Thanks anyway tho, Shawn
