Minilogin Help for Newbs

[petersonz]

1) Minilogin ignores any station name/password combo you put into the eq client.

2) The IP address and station and password entries in the miniloginaccounts.ini are ALL that matter.

3) The IP address must be the IP address of the machine running the EQ client and the station name and password in miniloginaccounts.ini much match an entry in the "account" table in the database. (case sensitive)

4) Each entry in the miniloginaccounts.ini must have a trailing space after the password.

5) Processing goes like this:

a. Minilogin ignores your station/password entered into the client but looks at the IP Address of client..

b. Minilogin checks if your client IP address is in the miniloginaccounts.ini.

If not, Then minilogin defaults to 127.0.0.1 entry (eqemu/eqemu usually)

If Yes, then minilogin passes the station name/password on the matching ip address line to world.exe for authentication.

6) If the station/password line in the miniloginaccounts.ini does not match an "account" table entry in the database, then you get an authentication failure error racked up on the world.exe window and you do not get in the game.