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As far as the bandwidth, i have DSL but everything will be here local in my house, closed off to just us. What did you mean about "how many zones", i mean the zone loads when you get into it right ? Are you saying that i can only host a limited amount of zones for us ? If so then this will not work for us, we would want the freedom of movement..
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You wont be able to run EQEmu on a Lan at this point... The only way to accomplish this is to run an older server version, as minilogin (which is what allows one to play locally and not connect to eqemulator.net servers) is broken and not being worked on anymore..
As far as zones go, you will be fine... Just set up your boot5zones.bat file as suggested in the guides... Technically if you are only playing 3 people the most zones at one time you will need up is 6...And that is only if all three of you zone to a different zone at the very same time.... You have plenty of computer to handle 3 people... And bandwidth wont be an issue, as you are only having 3 people hooked up at any one time.As a rule of thumb, it is 5K/s per client (aproximation)..... So if you have standard DSL (which is 128 up) you will have enough to handle them all.
There IS a way to set up your server so that you can have JUST the 3 computers you want connected to your server, and yet have your server listed on eqemulator.net login server... First you will have to lock your server. Then you need to create accounts in your database for all three computers clients. Set them to have server op access (which is 200). Now you need to edit your addon.ini file (which is where you set access levels for everyone). 200 is server op status, but you can set everything that you dont want accessed by those two other comptuers to 250 (Eg..!summonitem=250, not !summonitem=200).... Now just set YOUR access to 250, and you have access to all server op commands, but the two other computers dont.. The reason you change all those accounts to 200 (server op level) is because when your server has the status of locked, no one can log into it except server op's.....
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I would suggest you use the eqemu.net login server to play on your local server, you will just need to set the account names in your database just to allow access your server, and not allow anyone else to join(server will be locked, but granted accounts can login) I think you need to set all 3 accounts to serverop. Searching the forums for database editors, or if your comfortable editing sql files, you can use mysql-front and set the flags on your accounts.
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Actually there is a much easier way to do this.
Start with your server UNLOCKED so everyone can access it, then after your family have all created accounts, have them log off... Now shut down your server and open up a command window (dos session). cd into your eqemu server folder (where world.exe is), and type the following (substituting username for the specific UN they used, and access level 200, except for you, unless you want EVERYBODY to have access to ALL commands):
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world flag <username> <access level>
Then just close the window after it logs in, and re-lock through loginserver.ini, and restart. You are off and playing...