How do you set up a tcp/ip game?

[Raen]

I don't think it's anything like that. It seems pretty clear it's some sort of networking problem.

Have you tried varying the port number? I used 7000, for example, with no problem. But I'm not behind a firewall.....

I would turn off the firewall, make it so that it doesn't start up on startup and do a cold boot. Hopefully that would at least isolate the problem.

Out of curiosity, which OS are you using?

[Johan K]

Raen has some good suggestions and I would like to second them.

If that doesn't work then try these switches, change 1024 to whatever port you are using but don't change the ipadr:
--tcpclient --ipadr 127.0.0.1 --port 1024

[Saber Cherry]

Have you tried letting your friend host, and you joining his server?

[Sammual]

As long as you are not running a webserver on your PC use port 80 or 8080.

Sammual

[blackwulf]

First I would like to thank everyone for their help. Thank you very much!

This is what did the trick for me..

I switched the port to 7000 and I added the additional switches that Johan K suggested to my client launch shortcut.
--tcpclient --ipadr 127.0.0.1 --port 1024

I think the key was the tcpclient switch without it I still can't connect. But when applied it works like a charm.

I am running windows XP Home Edition. I also am running Zone Alarm firewall. I have two shortcuts on my desktop with the following configurations.

SERVER SHORTCUT
"C:\Program Files\dominions2demo\dom2demo.exe" -x --nointro --quickhost --tcpserver --port 7000 --noclientstart --nosound --nomusic --window

CLIENT SHORTCUT
"C:\Program Files\dominions2demo\dom2demo.exe" --tcpclient --ipadr 127..... --port 7000

Thanks Again!

-Blackwulf

[Shael]

ok im happy that you got it working
the problem might be that you checked the orginal ip from dom2 screen right ?
because it does not show right well it shows the IP of the computer but what people need to know is the gateway for it to work
you can check it by running dos promt
and typing ipconfig