N Dog Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 I just set up a LAN between two computers in my apartment - no hub, just NIC to NIC Everything works great in Windows - file sharing, printer sharing - but when trying to play Mulitplayer over the LAN, I create a game to host but no one on the LAN can find it. Do I need to download the dedicated server patch? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotss Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 Make sure you have TCP/IP installed in your lan options. YOu should also have a different IP address for each computer's nic. i.e. computer one would be IP: 10.0.0.1 Subnet mask: 255.0.0.0 Gateway: 10.0.0.1 computer two would be IP: 10.0.0.2 Subnet mask: 255.0.0.0 Gateway: 10.0.0.2 the subnet mask, gateway and DNS settings are irrelevant in your case because you are not connecting to the web at all. the hostname can be any thing you want to call the computers as it may ask you for it (win98/me) so when you set up your server on computer one, you should see 10.0.0.1 on the local JKII interface on computer two. hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N Dog Posted June 15, 2002 Author Share Posted June 15, 2002 I went and checked everything you mentioned and no conflicts there. Except here's the thing. I'm running Windows 2000. The other computer is running Windows ME and although both computers have TCP/IP installed on them, we are using NETBEUI for the network. Tried with TCP/IP and the ME machine would not recognize the 2000 machine at all. Once I installed NETBEUI, everything worked perfectly. Unless I'm mistaken, and I very well could be, you can't use TCP/IP to network with Windows 2000. The client machine will just sit in the Join Server screen while the "Refreshing Server List" will flash for who knows how long. Kind of sucks with the co-op hopefully coming out soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NerfYoda Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 Have you tried connecting directly? eg "/connect server.ip.address" in the console? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotss Posted June 17, 2002 Share Posted June 17, 2002 hey my other post got gobbled up by the forum move, so here it is again. can you ping the other computer? i.e. C:\ping 10.0.0.1 Pinging 10.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=150 Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=150 Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=150 Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=150 Ping statistics for 10.0.0.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms if you can't then you may have a nic card or cable problem. Netbui is used to tell other computers on the network that they are there. It is used for file and print sharing. It is not used for gaming at all. TCP/IP on the other hand is strictly used for gaming as well as mostly all internet applications. In any case, you should be able to ping the other machine at the command prompt. You "should" be able to directly connect to the other IP. You should check on both machines, under TCP/IP, advanced properties, WINS Tab.... For the Netbios settings. Windows2K needs netbios on in order to talk to Win9X machines. While I believe it is only needed for file sharing it may also be needed for gaming on a lan(or in your case PC<->PC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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