Mini -login for 8 players?
 

I was just introduced to this seemingly fantastic emulator (I havent tried it yet, but sounds cool). What I am wondering, is how to get 8 simultaneous players via mini login. I read somewhere this is possible, but I dont see how. How do the other players login? Do you replace the IP's with say the IP of your computer/router? Id like to be able to host my own server, but would like a bit of info on how to do it if possible.

there are two ways to set up the emu server:

1. minilogin
private, no Internet access. That's what the minilogin is used for. the login is eqemu/eqemu (security is not a problem because you are not going to the Net).

There is a loginserver.ini that needs to point to your mini with:
loginsever=localhost
worldname=<whatever you want>
worldaddress=<the ip of your world server usually 127.0.0.1 for single system, and 192.XXX or whatever for multiple systems>

account, password can be blank

You also have to go to your EQemu client directory (where you have copied over your EQ files) and change host.txt to point to the location of your miniserver.

It's possible to have more than one person in a private net but they all have to have access to that net. This means that you have multiple machines on the net. If you don't have such a set up, then it is not what you want.

2. gotfrags login
Allows multiple logins to your server through the Internet.
In this case you do not run minilogin. You change your loginserver (if it is not already setup) to point to gotfrags:
loginserver=eqlogin.gotfrags.com
worldname=<whatever you want>
worldaddress=<address of your world server, usuallyl 127.0.0.1>

Also make sure that your eqhost.txt points to gotfrags:
"eqlogin.gotfrags.com:5999"

Finally have all your users go to gotfrags and create an account, including yourself (the address is in the client guide on this board). Use that account name/password to login into gotfrags and select your server (or any other server). Same for your users.

Ok, I think I understand that... I guess my question is, could I do mini login from outside a network, given that I list my host IP address with a static IP? Then others could use that host IP and connect that way. Is that possible? Thanks!

I tried that but Then I couldn't log in from the internal network. Didn't have any external computers so I couldn't test if the outside network worked. I heard it's an either/or situation. Completely internal or completely external. Either way, the mini login is not robust enough to serve as a reliable login server anyways. If your ready to go public, move your shard to gotfrags.