Glad to know that I'm not alone I guess. Would have posted my errors as well, but they are basically the same as his. All of my server info is deffinately 100% filled out correctly, and I have tweaked the datarate in both directions. Nothing seems to work.

The fact that they get kicked at the char selection screen is odd though, so they do connect very briefly.

I'm not sure how EQEmu works for the most part, so I'm really going out on a limb here... but could this be some sort of permission problem?

I agree
 

my problem is that I can't get passed the login process. on either host or network computer nor can my friends and I followed the set up as well.

Try using the 0.4.1-DR3 code to compile your world/zones.... (yes, it might be buggy, but it has some fixes in that might save this)