HarryB Posted April 25, 2002 Posted April 25, 2002 My friend and I were trying to play the game via multiplayer last night. We're both able to see the public available servers and get into games listed, however, when either of us set a game up, neither can see the others server in the server list, nor will the search for unique player name yeild any results. Any ideas?
Ike Vandergraaf Posted April 25, 2002 Posted April 25, 2002 I am using XP and no one has ever joined one of my games. Is there some problem with XP, or am I just massively unpopular (the two, by the way, are not mutually exclusive)?
Darth Viersaan Posted April 25, 2002 Posted April 25, 2002 You might wanna use IPing instead of search, it is faster and it just might work.
ShannonKnight Posted April 25, 2002 Posted April 25, 2002 Okay i have browsed through some threads on this topic but i found no solution for it. All was fine until i created a home lan network. Now i have 2 network adapters and therefore 2 IP's on my PC. If i have both cards working (I'm using Win XP) and i start a dedicated internet server, i get the lan ip: 192.168.0.1 assigned. So i figured out thats why no one can see my server. So i deactivated the other network adapter and only the one running i'm using for the internet. When i start a dedicated server now i get my correct internet ip, but still after running the server for 2 hours no one connected. When i start a new game while running my dedicated server on the same maching and i try to locate me, i find me only local server and not in the internet list. It also says (UDP) after my server in the local list. Has this to do something with it? I read about threads that the master server can handle only some servers. (I checked it and yes i can see more servers on GameSpy and no i still can't see me) So my question is how the f*** can get my server running AND let others see it. I'm using WinXP (as stated above), I use no Firewall, neither an extern one nor the WinXp pre installed. Anyone any suggestions? P.S.: Forgive me any spelling mistakes, since english is not my native language. Hope this makes sense at all.
Krazx Posted April 26, 2002 Posted April 26, 2002 Originally posted by Ike Vandergraaf I am using XP and no one has ever joined one of my games. Is there some problem with XP, or am I just massively unpopular (the two, by the way, are not mutually exclusive)? Windows XP uses a built-in firewall, that's why I asked. ShannonKnight, if you're using a router on your LAN, then that could be the problem as well... considering they use built-in firewalls.
*T¥RANITH* Posted April 26, 2002 Posted April 26, 2002 ShannonKnight, I had roughly the same problem as you I think. This helped me, and i'm not sure if it will help you. The problem came because I was looking for the wrong IP address (in fact the same as yours, lol). You need the IP address of your actual computer, which I found by this (possibly longwinded) method: Have a copy of mIRC installed. Load it up and join a random channel Click on your name in the name-list and right click on yourself. Then find a command 'resolve IP' This will give you your ACTUAL IP address. This problem I *think* was the result of me using a gateway (a broadband switch) which may not be the problem. Hope this helps...
ShannonKnight Posted April 26, 2002 Posted April 26, 2002 I tried again today and started a dedicated server. (Changed nothin to yesterday) And it worked!!! I still couldn't find my server but some ppls joined me, although i had the weird lan ip: 192.169.0.1 I asked them how they found me and they simply saw me ingame. Strange huh?
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