cian1500ww Posted April 10, 2009 Report Posted April 10, 2009 Hi Pete, I just bought FSUIPC and WideFS today but I'm having difficulty getting my client computer connected. On FS9 on the server it shows waiting for clients, on my laptop or client wideclient.exe searches for the server connects then disconnects again, it keeps doing this. The laptop is connected wirelessly to the router that the server is connected to via ethernet. It works fine when I connect the PC and laptop directly together ie. bypassing the router. I know it must be a problem with the network so maybe you could shed some light on this for me ? ********* WideClient Log [version 6.78] Class=FS98MAIN ********* Date (dmy): 10/04/09, Time 11:30:51.108: Client name is CIAN 187 Attempting to connect now 234 Trying TCP/IP host "CIAN-PC" port 8002 ... 234Okay, IP Address = 67.215.65.132 9282 Connection made okay! 9423 Connection closed by server! 9423 Attempting to connect now 9657 Connection made okay! 10109 Connection closed by server! 10109 Attempting to connect now 11170 Connection made okay! 11419 Connection closed by server! 11435 Attempting to connect now 11575 Connection made okay! 11669 Connection closed by server! 11685 Attempting to connect now 15663 ****** End of session performance summary ****** 15663 Total time connected = 0 seconds 15663 Reception maximum: 0 frames/sec, 0 bytes/sec 15663 Transmission maximum: 0 frames/sec, 0 bytes/sec 15663 Max receive buffer = 187, Max send depth = 1, Send frames lost = 0 15663 ********* Log file closed (Buffers: MaxUsed 1, Alloc 8 Freed 8 Refused 0) *********
Pete Dowson Posted April 10, 2009 Report Posted April 10, 2009 It works fine when I connect the PC and laptop directly together ie. bypassing the router. I know it must be a problem with the network so maybe you could shed some light on this for me ? ... 234 Trying TCP/IP host "CIAN-PC" port 8002 ... 234Okay, IP Address = 67.215.65.132 There's the problem. For some reason the use of the router is fooling Windows into translating the ServerName from "CIAN-PC" into the IP address 67.215.65.132, which isn't a valid Local network address. It is probably some setting on the router, maybe part of its firewall or address translation system. You could try setting the correct IP address explicitly in the client INI, instead of Servername. Regards Pete
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