First off, do you have MySQL and the EQEmu database set up properly? (that is, are you able to run the emulator and log in with the EQ client?) Yes to this would establish that your database setup is a-ok.
Second: To set up the admin tool, it needs a few things (all of which should be set by clicking on the Preferences button which lies at the bottom of the admin tool):
- your database name: 99% of people use "eq" as the database name, though I do it differently (mine is currently called eq311 as I create new databases for each emu version).
- Your database host. If your database is on the same physical computer as the admin tool, then this should ne 127.0.0.1 (which it is for 99% of people).
- Your database username and password. This is NOT -- repeat, NOT -- the same as the username/password for your eqemu account. It is, rather, the MySQL username and password (for example, on the MySQL website they use the example username "monty" and example password "some_pass". It should be the same username and password that is placed in the db.ini file for EQEmu. NB: if you haven't done so already, you should use the MySQL GRANT command to grant all privileges to your database username, so that the emu (and more importantly the admin tool) can use it to access and modify the database. "The Big LAN Book" is a good reference to keep handy, and if that fails, check out all the "sticky" posts at the top of the forums. The info you need is sure to be in there.
The Big LAN Book:
http://forums.eqemu.net/showthread.p...ighlight=grant
- Your EQ directory. While not strictly necessary, without it the admin tool won't be able to locate item icons for use on the items pane. The easiest way to set this is to click on the Browse button and seelct any file in your EQ folder (I STRONGLY recommend copying your ENTIRE EQ folder to some other folder, which you can then use exclusively for EQEmu!!!!).
- Your maps directory. This is a folder in which you place .MAP files for use by the admin tool. These files are needed to see an overhead view of a zone on the spawns tab. You can find a .ZIP file containing lots of example .MAP files in the SourceForge download section, right next to the .ZIP file containing version 2.1 of the admin tool (this was the first time that I placed the .MAP files into a separate distribution). Like the EQ folder, the easiest way to do this is to click Browse and select any of the .MAP files. Sorry, but there aren't any .MAP files for Luclin or POP zones, but if you look for the ShowEQ project from any search engine you could probably find the necessary files, as the admin tool uses the same .MAP files that ShowEQ uses (and the relatedness between the two projects ends exactly there).
AGX Emulator! Wow, that's going Waaaay back. You see, EQEmu started out as the AGX emulator, which then begat FreeQuest, which then begat EQEmu
The admin tool is still called FQAdmin because I started the Delphi project when it was still called FreeQuest. I suppose with some effort I could migrate the project such that the executable is called EQAdmin.exe, but so far the effort simply hasn't been worth the trouble.
Wind
Problem with EqEmu Admin Tool!
Linear Mode
