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[trevius]

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:

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.

[GeorgeS]

Since the connection checking tool failed, it's not the schema in all likely-hood, but either your connection may be blocked at the firewall, or your user/password is not right.

Have you logged into the database with a database tool like heidisql or something similar?

my login - as it's provided with the tools

host=localhost
user=eq
password=eq
database=peq_1751
everquest_folder=c:\EverQuest_SOD


//everquest_folder this is for SPELL LIST SOURCING FROM SPELLS_US.TXT!! -- NEEDED IF YOU MAKE CUSTOM SPELLS
//for example - everquest_folder=c:\everquest

GeorgeS