Ok, using the 'debug' version, i changed my eqemuconfig.xml to read
Code:
<loginserver>
<host>localhost</host>
<port>5998</port>
<account></account>
<password></password>
</loginserver>
forwarded port 5998 on my router to the correct internal ip.
fired up my eq server and apparently it connected
Code:
[Debug] [WORLD__LS] Connecting to login server...
[Debug] [WORLD__LS] Connected to Loginserver: localhost:5998
[Debug] [WORLD__ZONE] New TCP connection from 127.0.0.1:3813
[Debug] [WORLD__CONSOLE] New launcher from 127.0.0.1:3813
might need to change localhost to my external ip, not sure yet.
can't log in to server select as i believe the tables in the database are all empty and don't contain any valid info yet.
seems like a step in the right direction at least!