need a answer to a question...

samthetrue · Post by **samthetrue** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:02 am

is there something i need to do before otehrs can connect to my world? i made it... and landed on a word that is uninhabited... but a friend of mine cant land there... is there something i need to do before he can?

Post by **Fooli** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:54 am

Have you set your external IP address in serverconfig.txt? You might need a line like

EXTERNALIP=(your.external.ip.address)

Try that, save the file, then launch your world and try landing on it. If you've recently tried getting your world online using a different IP address (it often defaults to your internal one) it'll take a few minutes for the galaxy to catch up with the new one, so be patient.

If that doesn't work... hmm. Does your friend see the world as online or offline?

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samthetrue · Post by **samthetrue** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:12 am

well we live in difrent contrys... so i bet we are at difrent IPs... and it still doesnt work
and he sees it as offline

Post by **Fooli** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:45 am

Makes no difference where you live. Unless you specify your ip address in the serverconfig file, your world most likely won't be visible to anyone but yourself.

What's the world called? I'll look into it now..
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samthetrue · Post by **samthetrue** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:29 am

samsonite... its in M-25...

Darkfox · Post by **Darkfox** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:22 am

Well I can see his little world so it's online....No connection it says(as it does with me)
{Howdy Neighbor Sam....guess we got stuck with the wrong system[Xeon is my world fyi]}

Post by **Mit** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:03 am

the host machine on a local network? Might need some set up done on the router if you have one... (See various other threads on that subject, if appropriate..)

(EXTERNALIP is almost never required .. (unless you the world happens to be on the same LAN as the galaxy...))