Origianlly yes only 2 boxes opened and stayed 3rd close right away...atm this is the last error im dealing with on the server side setup. then on to setting up pc's

tried the pw change to no avail

and yes getting 3 dos boxes * mind you wasnt originally

check your listen port on EqEmuLogin

When I first tried, I could not connect for the life of me... then it suddenly struck me... the listen port and the world broadcast port where 1 didgit off... so when i was bleary eyed looking over the configs... it didn't notice it

ok, i seem to have server working now... but cant log in, have attempted from same com and I get a heap corruption error with server and it crashes ...
now if i try to connect to the server via a 2nd computer it wont even log in it times out any suggestions

Again, I had this problem - it's like deja vu :)

For me, this error was generated by my entry in the eqhost file in the Everquest directory of the machine running the server.

host=localhost:<yourport> worked OK
host=127.0.0.1:<yourport> worked OK
host=<yourIP eg 192.168.0.2>:<yourport> gave me the error you describe.

NB Even when I had this error, I could choose 'ignore' from the error window and still connect from the hosting machine. However, I never managed to get another WAN client connected, and gave up and used a private login (which suits my needs).

Hope this helps, good luck (you're almost there methinks).