So can you or cant you?

[thekub]

I've been reading the forums for a few days and I feel there is a lot of conflicting information in some of the posts.

Can you create a server on a LAN with the current version of eqemu and have multiple users playing at the same time? (LAN only NOT internet)

Does minilogin work? Not work? Only work for 1 user? Will work for multiple users on a LAN?

Now I know EQEMU readme says it doesn't support LAN play but does that mean it will not work or that it may work but devs are not actively ensuring that it works?

Im at college and want to host a server for 4-8 people and dont want to do an internet game as the internet connection here sucks.

[vetoeq]

Yes, you can do a LAN based server with Minilogin.exe just fine. I just set one up this past weekend and it's a living world. One caveat is that you can only have one account per IP address and the IP -> account mapping must be put into the MiniLoginAccounts.ini file.

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[thekub]

I have been trying since yesterday and i have tried many different setups. currently my miniloginaccounts.ini file looks like this

127.0.0.1 eqemu eqemu
158.80.64.* eqemu eqemu
158.80.64.* eqemu eqemu

I have tried different passwords for ip's but they never seen to make it past the login screen. Im curious to which readme.txt you followed as i have noticed there are many confliciting versions of the readme.txt. Also if possible could you tell me what setup you used to get it up and running with multiple people. Me being on the server side, I can login to the game and run around just fine but anyone else trying to login, even using the same account as myself can't get past the char creation screen. This is my dilemma so any help would be greatly appreciated.

[vetoeq]

Try this:

127.0.0.1 eqemu eqemu
158.80.64.1 friend1 friend1passwd
158.80.64.2 friend2 friend2passwd

Obviously, you'll need to change the .1 & .2 to the correct IP address. Also, they'll need to have an account in the database that matches friend1 and friend2. I belive this can be done via world.exe with the add action:

world.exe add user <name> <passwd> <flag>

In the example above you would do:

world.exe add user friend1 friend1passwd 10
world.exe add user friend2 friend2passwd 10

if you wanted them to be normal users.

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[thekub]

You my friend are cool!!!

However the world commands were giving us errors so we opened up the admin tool and manually entered the accounts into the users tab and it all works!!!!

If needed we can write a new guide about setting up a lan server (atleast an up to date one)