i truely appriciate all your help it was the weirdest thing i figured it out today and now everything works great and im the proud owner of a server haha all i had to do was take out the password in my eqemu_config file and try and run the start.bat and when i did that it would not let me connect but at least it recognized me as root and not eq so then i went back to the config file and put my password back in and it worked great lol. just a weird problem of trial and error i suppose lol but hey if you are well versed in running a server and the things you can do as a gm take a look at my latest sad thread haha
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=29756
thanks again
