OK I dled the NAT patch but then what am i supposed to do with it? I can load it into notepad to read it but I cant do anything else with it.

yay I got it all working now by useing a dns website thing. Thanks for your help.

lol ok I spoke a little too soon, I mean it "works" but not at good preformance. Like the second pc on my LAN connects through the internet then back to the server pc, which causes it to lag. Is thier a way to make the second pc on my LAN connect through the LAN into the server pc?

Unless your second PC is connected directly to the internet, it shouldn't be going through the "internet" when connecting.

A good way to verify this is to look at the message in World.exe when connecting. It should say a new connection from "192.168.0.X" or whatever the LAN ip that's connecting is.

Is your server machine running EQ at the same time it's running the Server?

no its not connected directly to the internet, but I have it setup so the clients read member.dns.org which forwards them or whatever it does to my real IP, would that make the second pc on my lan go out to the internet then bak? or will it only do that once and realize its on the LAN and connect via lan? hhmm il have to check tommrow what the world.exe says cause i got a bunch of things to finish up for tommrow that I have to do right now. :( oh and yea i did have eq runnin on the server pc. Though when the second lan pc connects its lag meter goes up to red very fast then dc's... would that be why? thanks!

Running EQ at the same time as the server on the same machine is going to cause a lot of lag. Set your worldaddress= and your Boot5Zones IPs to your dns.org address. Then on the client machines (EXCEPT for your server machine) on your LOCAL network, edit the C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file to contain the line:

(your dns.org address) [TAB] (your internal server IP)

Mine, for example, is:

bluemist.org 192.168.0.1

I'm having the same kind of issue, I'm using the minilogon

I get to the logon screen fine using my usid and pass created (jonathan/xxxxxxxxx)Client disconnected (eqnc->GetState()=102)

Removing client from ip: 127.0.0.1, port: 1708
190183 New client from ip: 127.0.0.1 port: 1710
Client disconnected (eqnc->GetState()=102)
Removing client from ip: 127.0.0.1, port: 1710
200047 New client from ip: 127.0.0.1 port: 1714
Client disconnected (eqnc->GetState()=102)
Removing client from ip: 127.0.0.1, port: 1714

It removes me after showing this in the WORLD.EXE

window902527 New client from ip: 127.0.0.1 port: 1700
127.0.0.1: Wrong name/pass: name='eqemu'
Removing client from ip:127.0.0.1 port:1700
935805 New client from ip: 127.0.0.1 port: 1706
127.0.0.1: Wrong name/pass: name='eqemu'
Removing client from ip:127.0.0.1 port:1706
982983 New client from ip: 127.0.0.1 port: 1712
127.0.0.1: Wrong name/pass: name='eqemu'
Removing client from ip:127.0.0.1 port:1712

Now the funny thing is, no matter WHAT usid I put it, it defaults to that. ? I dunno . . .If you need anything else let me know

ok well I got my server working.. I tested it for the last day or so to make sure b4 posting this time :p just a few bugs I got right now, like how some zones load into boxes with cat pics on the walls.. lol why is that? is it cause the cords for the zone are wrong and thats like a safe box? Well anyway I got mine working by making an account at dydns.com and used my server.dydns.org in the loginserver.ini instead of my IP same with the boot5zones and now my clients and I are connecting fine. I guess it was my pc laggin the server down b4 too when I ran eq on it and the server.. it was my Athlon 950 w/ 640MB PC-133 RAM, now the server's on my Athlon XP 1900+ Oced to 2200+, with 512MB PC2700 RAM and its running nice other than some smaller issues. I think though I might be getting a few dc's from my server but I guess thats just my internet sucking till I get my faster line put in. Thanks again for your help!

The Cat was the picture of one of the early EQ developers cats who had passed away..

You are in the 'safe spot'. Its the spot the client sends you when the server tries to zone you somewhere it cant put you.

You will need to #goto a location in the zone to get out of it.

I always try #goto 0 0 0, in some zones, the safe spot will have locations written on the walls, just reverse the first 2 numbers, and #goto them..

ok I was able to find the right coordinates to get out of the safe box but how do I keep the new points? I tried going to zone points under EQAdmin and changing them their but it still brings me back to the box and I even tried the #safepoint command from the game.