Minilogin question...
Hello guys!
Just a quick question. From my knowledge (already running a home EQ server/client on 2 pcs, local networked) minilogin.exe/miniloginaccounts.ini is used just for that.
However I wanted to see if I can get a friend of mine to connect to my server via Internet by giving him my externalIP to put it on eqhost.txt and of course make all relevant changes in my part like database/.inis etc. (both pcs use normal dialup/no firewalls)
I had little hope of course of succeeding but to my surprise it did connect! However that with 1 more time were the only times he manage that, rest 20 retries failed with a 1017 error from his side. Since I know a couple of things about it, I rechecked everything (DB/privileges/usernames/.INIs etc) and everything is done as I think it should be.
However it puzzled me why he did connect these times and not be able all the others, so I
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