Yeah, GeorgeS, they all work remotely just fine. I use them to connect remote on my own LAN, and my other dev connects to them remotely from another location fine as well.
What Operating System are you running, deaddraqear? Maybe that has something to do with it.
I don't have my db.ini available from here, but I think you may need quotes around your EQ folder path like this:
Code:
everquest_folder="c:\Program Files\Sony\Everquest"
Any time a space is in the path, quotes are generally required. Though, I don't think that will effect your DB connection attempts, you would get another error most likely.
Also, have you tried setting the actual IP of your PC as the host vs just setting it to localhost? Not sure if that will make a difference, but should be worth a shot. Probably something like 192.168.1.100.