Working Lan Server Working Smoothly

[Uleat]

That's one of the main differences between 'free' copyrighted material and open-source material. They can decide at any time how their code may be distributed, as you found out by the $750 cost for the 'professional' version.

As far as writing a guide, I can only say there is an immense amount information that you will need to research and understand to make a complete guide. I've considered it myself, but there is a lot that I can't test with my limited setup and I'm nowhere near being qualified to answer questions outside my domain.

I'm not trying to discourage you from this effort, rather the opposite. And since it's a wiki, the open-edit should allow people the ability to make changes or add to something if you're unsure about a certain situation.

I, too, was trying to stir up the hornet's nest abit with the perl issue. There's some contraindictions regarding which versions of perl and visual studio will compile, and the person working on that is quite knowledgeable. I just don't want to be the one pushing buttons

If you're still having issues with compiling binaries or configuration, don't give up. This is a very helpful community! (The only stories that I've heard of people not getting their server up and running are those where the person gave up...)


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[Myrakkel]

I setup my LAN server in late 2003 and it has been up ever since. There have been major changes in tutorials and a few botched trial and error database conversions but all-in-all; nothing has changed much. I, honestly, love minilogin and have never had a problem with it; granted 6.2 is a hellofalot better than 6.1! Google search for: ActivePerl-5.10.1.1007-MSWin32-x86-291969 if you still need it. This is the version of perl that has worked for me and I found it in Google a few seconds ago and never saw a price tag on it.

Keep trying, you may be bald from pulling your hair out before it is all over but you will get there. I knew crap about SQL nor Perl before I started venturing into server creation. The fun is the journey. Just keep retracing steps, and wiping, and retracing steps and wiping, .... eventually the server works. Stop wiping the hard drive after that.

[marvandmartian]

I can honesly say I had the same problem building my server. I followed 4 or 5 different guides and ended up using little pieces from all of them. The hardest part by far was realising I did not have the proper version of the software I was using and going out looking for another copy to try. If you look hard enough they are all out there even the mysql. I ended up finding a site that had every version of release. Perl was just as hard. As soon as I got all versions to the exact version the guides were asking for the server came together perfectly and seems to run amazing.