Yes, that's what I meant.
The eqemulator.net login server is probably the best idea, but there are a couple issues that make me not use it.
One is when their site isn't working, noone can login to your game. Granted, it has been pretty reliable in the few years I have been trolling here, but it does go down from time to time.
The second issue is that creating a LS account here is an extra step that is sometimes difficult for people to understand and figure out. (maybe my friends are just dumb).
Also, I don't want to deal with locking or setting access levels to keep the public out while testing.
I just run a server for guildies and friends though, not a public game. I wrote a simple PHP script to tie my forum usernames with the emu account table, so my users just need to login to my site to verify their IP, then they can login to the emu server.
If you are going to host a public server, then the LS is probably a better idea of course.
Anyway, if your computer gets a world routable IP address assigned to it through DHCP, you can probably use it as your minilogin IP. Then have your friend put that IP in his eqhost.txt file. Of course, you need your friend's IP to be in your 'account' table, otherwise he can't login as Minilogin only uses your IP address to log you in.
If your machine gets it's IP through NAT or some other method, it would require some additional software or config changes to your network, so using the LS might be a less painful solution.
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