4 friends trying to play a LAN game

[skypilot]

Myself and 3 friends (CommCR, dmoney, and a non member) are trying to play Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne over a lan... we have been playing Rise of Nations (Well worth the money, by the way!), but would like to get our fantasy fix for the night

Here is our problem... Two of them can hook up to the game I host, but CommCR cannot see my game. We all have updated our games to the newest version thru B.net, have our FT CD's in the drive, not our WC3 CD's, but he still cannot see games I host, nor games anyone else hosts. We are on a router together and he can still access the internet fine and we can all share files. Any ideas?

 

[Kenny]

Heh I don't know anything about networking, but I've had this problem with StarCraft before. What I did was make a private internet game. Not sure if you can do it with Frozen Throne though.

 

have him host

make sure he has the proper protocols.

Disable all firewalls

 

[CommCR]

More info:

He can't open the shared folders on my computer, but he can get on the internet... so it's like he's not on the LAN but he is getting an IP from the router

 

check his security settings then. If he has them set high in some areas, LAN games dont work all that well.

EDIT: W00T! 4k posts!

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
check his security settings then. If he has them set high in some areas, LAN games dont work all that well.

EDIT: W00T! 4k posts!

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[skypilot]

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: FallenHero
check his security settings then. If he has them set high in some areas, LAN games dont work all that well.

EDIT: W00T! 4k posts!

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Shame that your 4000th post had no results Kidding.... but it didn't work :-(

Congrats on 4K

 

[xcript]

The game hoster could run Battle.LAN or LANCraft and forward the traffic to the box that's being difficult.

Not an ideal solution, but that's all I've got. :beer:

 

[udonoogen]

zonealarm could really mess things up. i installed it once and it messed around with my network settings

 

[Killbat]

WC3 uses TCP/IP over lan, right? RIGHT? Please god don't tell me they drug IPX up out of the crypt again.

In the event that they have, make sure all the computers are set to use the 802.3 frame type (under the IPX protocol settings, wherever that is for you).

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: Killbat
WC3 uses TCP/IP over lan, right? RIGHT? Please god don't tell me they drug IPX up out of the crypt again.

Heh. Pretty sure it just uses TCP/UDP.

 

[captains]

what os is he running......i had a problem once with not having netboi (sp) or something like that not installed

 

[DaiShan]

Check to make sure he isn't running the xp firewall on his computer, this could inhibit lan games.

 

[CommCR]

Originally posted by: captains
what os is he running......i had a problem once with not having netboi (sp) or something like that not installed

He = Me

WinXP

I could play with the others on the Lan with Rise of nations because it allowed me the option to connect directly to their IP Address. Warcraft doesn't have that option.....