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[Hrothgar]

Vales, I appreciate your patience and the restraint you have exercised in not pointing out exactly how clueless I am. I guess I just don't test well. I made the changes you noted in red and orange above.

When I use 192.168.1.1 in eqhost.txt and as the local address in eqemu_config.xml then I receive the error: "A connection to the server could not be reached. Please check your internet connection to make sure you are online." I have opened the relevant ports and even tried temporarily disabling (and applying change) Windows Firewall.

When I use 192.168.1.101 in eqhost.txt and as the local address in eqemu_config.xml then I receive "Error - The username and/or password were not valid. Please check them and try again." I have tried three different login accounts and verified them by checking the table in HeidiSQL.

[vales]

No problem. It's all a learning process, and we were all there at one time or another.

Just missed the loginserver part of your config file. Sorry about that.

Try this:

<loginserver>
<host>slobovia.no-ip.biz</host>
<port>5998</port>
<account></account>
<password></password>
</loginserver>

then in your eqhosts.txt file, change it to:

[LoginServer]
Host=slobovia.no-ip.biz:5998

If that doesn't work, change it to:

[LoginServer]
Host=192.168.1.101:5998

And finally, if that fails... It could be that your router doesn't support NAT routing. A lot of older routers have this issue.

What you could to test it out is put your dyndns name in your eqhosts.txt file like so:

[LoginServer]
Host=slobovia.no-ip.biz:5998

This will be for any clients connecting to your PC that's hosting the server.


Then go to C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc, and open your hosts file with notepad or something.

You should see:

127.0.0.1       localhost

at the bottom.

Add this line:

slobovia.no-ip.biz       192.168.1.101

Then save the hosts file.

What this does is loops your connection and reroutes it to your server's PC - assuming 192.168.1.101 is the LAN IP to your server. So any PC with this modified host file will have their connection rerouted.