Some things I found out regarding minilogin
 

1) Minilogin ignores any station name/password combo you put into the eq client.

2) The IP address and station and password entries in the miniloginaccounts.ini are ALL that matter.

3) The IP address must be the IP address of the machine running the EQ client and the station name and password in miniloginaccounts.ini much match an entry in the "account" table in the database. (case sensitive)

4) Each entry in the miniloginaccounts.ini must have a trailing space after the password.

5) Processing goes like this:

a. Minilogin ignores your station/password entered into the client but looks at the IP Address of client..

b. Minilogin checks if your client IP address is in the miniloginaccounts.ini.

If not, Then minilogin defaults to 127.0.0.1 entry (eqemu/eqemu usually)

If Yes, then minilogin passes the station name/password on the matching ip address line to world.exe for authentication.

6) If the station/password line in the miniloginaccounts.ini does not match an "account" table entry in the database, then you get an authentication failure error racked up on the world.exe window and you do not get in the game.

I am assuming by this setup, it is impossible to play 2 accounts from the same PC. Any ideas how to get around the restriction?

rawr ;0

Second account from same machine with Minilogin
 

It is possible to run a second account from the same machine using minilogin.

The only requirement is that the eqemu running minilogin machine is different machine.

It involves doing the following:

1) Make a second IP subnet on both your windoze machine running eq client and on your eqemu server. Do this by adding a second ip address to each machine.

In windoze, do it in the network properites->Tcpip->Advanced

In Linux, do it by "ifconfig eth0:1"

If your normal IP addresses are:

192.168.0.5 255.255.255.0 (Eqemu)
and
192.168.0.6 255.255.255.0 (Windoze running eq client)

then make your secondary addresses:

192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 (eqemu secondary address)
and
192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0 (windoze running eq client)

Now, make a second instance of the eq client directory on your hard disk, and use a different eqhost.txt file for each instance, one on the first ip subnet (the primary one), another eqhost.txt file with the second subnet in the other.

Finally, make 2 entries in your miniloginaccounts.ini. One with the first subnet, one with the second.

Viola. You now can run 2 accounts on 1 windoze machine to the same eqemu server (seperate machine) using minilogin.

Sorry it took so long to reply govtcheeze. Been kinda busy with RL.

:D