Please Help!!!!--Multiplayer

Fyron · #1 December 31st, 2002, 08:33 PM

I suggest emailing MM with this.

Ragnarok · #2 December 31st, 2002, 09:04 PM

Man, I wish I knew how me and my brother fixed this.
We had the same problem, I would host the game and I could see him connect on my end, but at his end it said 'could not connect to host'. We played around with some things and finally got it to work. But I cannot remember how we did it. It has been along time since then. We just recently tried it again but now it isn't working again.
I know one problem we had is I am on a home network and the internet is put through our server in our basement. At first me and my brother were trying to connect and he would put in my IP addy that I get when I run ipconfig in the command prompt. But then I decided to get my actual IP number and that helped with the problem. I am pretty sure that is what fixed it for good.
But its not working now, we think, because he has got a router and we cannot figure out a way to get around that just yet.

GenTomGun · #3 January 1st, 2003, 06:29 AM

Thanks again for the replies. As far as your suggestion Ragnorok, when we try to connect we do use our acutal ip addresses provided by our ISP provider. Meaning when they try to connect they do not type in the 10.0.0.2 which is the lan ip i have for my host, they type in my acutal ip address. Probably shortly i just go get a linksys router and dump this piece of crap of modem/router i have.

Fyron · #4 January 1st, 2003, 08:29 AM

You did not alter the Source IP lines at all in SE4, did you? Doing so is not a good idea.

KirbyEF · #5 January 1st, 2003, 08:41 AM

I have had better luck hosting from a Win98SE machine... I don't know what OS's you have or how many computers you have, but I would suggest trying to setup a PC (with 98), just for the purpose of hosting and see if that fixes your problem (Dual boot if necessary).

I also noticed a problem with a PC with a VPN software installed (for access to corporate network). I don't know if this is a factor, but the above solution might fix your problem.

KirbyEF

GenTomGun · #6 January 1st, 2003, 09:28 AM

Fyron...no i havent messed with those but since you mentioned them where would i find those source lines at?

Kirbyf.....right now im running winxp pro..i ahve 3 pcs networked....see my writup for additional info....as for VPN software no i do not have nay running i dont think..as far the win 98 se.. that might be a possiblity..all my pcs are running xp pro at moment i may change one over to test that theory of yours.

Fyron · #7 January 1st, 2003, 10:14 AM

It is in the screen where the player selects a nick and a host IP to connect to.

I host and play from 2000 with no problems. XP is the next generation of 2000, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

[ January 01, 2003, 08:16: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]