Can't find server on lan - xp
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:16 am
My brother and I recently started playing moo2 again and are trying to get a lan game going because hotseat games take too long.
Originally we both got the comm failure message when trying to start up a lan game, but after doing some research I enabled netbios in my TCP/IP settings which seems to have gotten rid of the comm failure problem.
So now I can start the lan game with a server and it says "1 player has joined" but I can't ever find the server to join it on my other computer. Could it be that we don't have separate IP addresses or did i do something wrong? Both are windows xp and I have the dosbox config file setup like this.
[ipx]
# ipx -- Enable ipx over UDP/IP emulation.
ipx=true
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
MOUNT C C:\mps\orion2
C:
ipxnet startserver
orion2~1
and for the computer thats joining I have ipxnet connect 24.96.36.253 instead of startserver.
Originally we both got the comm failure message when trying to start up a lan game, but after doing some research I enabled netbios in my TCP/IP settings which seems to have gotten rid of the comm failure problem.
So now I can start the lan game with a server and it says "1 player has joined" but I can't ever find the server to join it on my other computer. Could it be that we don't have separate IP addresses or did i do something wrong? Both are windows xp and I have the dosbox config file setup like this.
[ipx]
# ipx -- Enable ipx over UDP/IP emulation.
ipx=true
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
MOUNT C C:\mps\orion2
C:
ipxnet startserver
orion2~1
and for the computer thats joining I have ipxnet connect 24.96.36.253 instead of startserver.