Need help connecting to NWN2 server

[techwanabe]

Hi

I have a friend who has two computers on a home LAN. One of his computers is hosting Neverwinter Nights II and the other computer is joining the game via the "direct connect" option (his son). I want to join their "LAN" game over the internet. But the IP addres he gave me is a 192.168...... internal IP address. Naturally I can't connect to an internal IP because there are a gazillion of those right?

So, is it possible to connect to the NWN server on a home LAN via the internet? If so, how? Or am I forced to use the Gamespy service in this situation.

 

[skyking]

I'd suggest that you and your friend study routing a bit, specifically port forwarding.
He can forward the necessary ports on his router in to his computer so that you can connect via his WAN IP, but there are security implications to that.

 

[Soulchaser]

I had something similar going on with NWN2 for me as well. I stumbled upon Hamachi while I was looking for a solution to another problem as well. It creates a virtual lan over the internet. Just have everybody install it and connect to the same network and you have your connection to them without gamespy.
http://www.hamachi.cc/

 

[techwanabe]

Originally posted by: Soulchaser
I had something similar going on with NWN2 for me as well. I stumbled upon Hamachi while I was looking for a solution to another problem as well. It creates a virtual lan over the internet. Just have everybody install it and connect to the same network and you have your connection to them without gamespy.
http://www.hamachi.cc/

Actually I did exactly that, we all installed Himachi and NWN2 connected to their game on their home network. It worked like a charm for two gaming sessions and then after that I can't get NWN2 to connect their game server anymore. It's wierd how it worked two times on two different days and then no matter what we do, no joy. I've tried rebooting, rerunning Himachi etc. Tried some different things but failure every time. Himachi correctly shows their IP addresses and names too. I don't know if NWN2 patch botched the way it was working.

It sure seems to me that a game out of the box should work with common computer home networks. This is becoming very wide spread now.