Updated Windows Server Setup Guide

[Speedz]

I completely uninstalled perl and deleted the folder and restarted the perl section in the guide useing perl version ActivePerl-5.8.9.825-MSWin32-x86-288577.msi

I also searched for the other perl install entries for version 5.8 that are not mentioned in this guide. I forget offhand what they are, but not too hard to find. I think I used 2 entries that are not on this guide.

Now I am fighting not being able to minilogin my server, my internet is crap WISP (wireless Internet Service Provider) and it is extremely slow and unreliable.

So I am trying to make a internet independent EQ. Tho I have scoured the forums and nothing seems to work as of yet. Tho I once was able to login through the normal eqemulator.net login server. But its time for me to search the heck out of this issue.

[EQFAN2009]

Thanks for the update Speedz. It looks like it might be time for an updated Windows server installation guide. I've started working on one, but until I can successfully build and run one I'll hold off on publishing it! There are a number of factors involved in getting the server up and running and unfortunately they're not all in the one place. Hopefully when I'm done it will be a one stop shop for server installation complete with screen shots.
From what I can gather the latest versions of Perl and MySQL are not fully compatible with the server and DB files. I also learned by trial and error about patching in the latest .sql files from the utils directory none of the present guides have these things in them. This is not a criticism of the great job others have done but I'd like to build and improve on what has been developed before.
Right now I just wish I could resolve the connection problem when trying to enter the world from the character selection screen on a LAN PC!

[Speedz]

Well an update on my situation:

Minilogin "seems" to hate me, but I got the EQEmuLoginServer.exe to play nice with world server finally.

My hangup is, no matter what I do, I can't get past "invalid username and/or password" when trying to login.

I tried various things:

deleted the account from database to see if one will just auto populate, no luck.
tried to enter an unhashed password in the password field in the database, no luck.
tried hashed password, no luck.

I am at a loss so far as to how to play on my server. I once did successfully connect through the eqemu login servers but this is not how I want it to work. So I know my database is at least functioning well enough.

Off to more searching. Once I get this working, I will try to retrace all my steps of success and create a emulator on another machine from scratch and document the steps and all files needed to help with a guide update. But until I can actually log in to my server that isn't going to happen soon.

Any guide help I will add is for offline only steps. As I think the current guides need some help in that area. I also thank everyone so far in this community. I been a member for years and inactive for most of it. It is great to see so much work continuing to be done.

[Hrothgar]

Originally Posted by Speedz

Well an update on my situation:

... My hangup is, no matter what I do, I can't get past "invalid username and/or password" when trying to login.

I tried various things: ...

I am in the same boat. I have tried for weeks with different usernames and passwords (sha and plain). I have the variable set to "Public" instead of "minilogin". I have tried various IP settings in the eqemu_config.xml and eqhost.txt (router address, lan address, server address, 127.0.0.1, dyndns address, no-ip.biz address, localhost). World.exe connects to the login server and I can watch the login command window reject my user name "Could not find user 5da4c2c" but I can't get past "Error - The username and/or password were not valid. Please check them and try again." on the EQ login screen. I am not sure if the encrypted username in the login command window means anything (it isn't encrypted in the login database).