WTH! Connection errors??

[Damilis]

My thoughts:

I am assuming:
1) You are running server .exe's and client .exe's on same machine
2) based on your IP, your computer is NOT behind a router/firewall and that the IP you have is Dynamicly assigned by your ISP
3) for arguments sake, we will use 78.56.34.12 as 'your' IP

db.ini -> looks good.

loginserver.ini:

 
### --- This file tells world.exe what loginserver to connect to.
### --- Leave the account and password field BLANK.
### --- Public Login is un-supported as is LAN playing.
### --- We reccomend using the EQEmu.net Loginserver ALWAYS.
### --- NOTE: Starting 6-1-2002, you can no longer use the word
### --- "Server" in worldname.  The word "Server" is
### --- added to each server automaticly.
### --- READ README.TXT

[LoginServer]
loginserver=eqemulator.net
loginport=5998
worldname=Caster's Haven
worldaddress=78.56.34.12
locked=false
account=
password=

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=0
Unavailzone=
[ChatChannelServer]
worldshortname=
chataddress=
chatport=

boot5zones.bat:

REM: ****Read this first!!!****
REM: This file requires your real IP in the place
REM:   of "YourIP" when you are connecting
REM:   to the EQEmu Loginserver.
REM: When you are using minilogin,
REM:   Replace all IP Addresses to say 127.0.0.1
REM: If you still get errors try using
REM:   localhost instead of 127.0.0.1
REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off
if NOT exist spells_us.txt goto NOSPELL
 
start zoneperl . 78.56.34.12 7995 localhost
start zoneperl . 78.56.34.12 7996 localhost
#start zoneperl . 78.56.34.12 7997 localhost
#start zoneperl . 78.56.34.12 7998 localhost
#start zoneperl . 78.56.34.12 7999 localhost
 
exit
cls
:NOSPELL
echo You did not copy the spells_us.txt from your everquest directory to this one. Please do so or zones will crash on startup.
PAUSE
REM:---------------END------------------------

And, of course, if it doesn't work, replace localhost with 127.0.0.1. And if that still doesn't work, mind you this is a LAST resort, replace all occurances of localhost or 127.0.0.1 with your external ip 78.56.34.12...... but this will drasticly slow down connect times and may even timeout the client, all depends on your internet connection speed.