Atomic Mitten Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 Hi Olaf,an online player friend of mine is having problems connecting to your site, using the XWIS client switch.He has a dsl connection through a network card.Does this make any difference.When he try's to login he gets an error message, westwood servers not available at the present time ?I think that somehow the switch isn't changing the IPA.He's even re-installed the client switch, but no joy.He is running windows 2000.Any help or advise will be greatfully received. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 10, 2003 Author Share Posted September 10, 2003 That doesn't make a difference. Is he logged in as admin? Which IPA does his tool show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 in windows 2000 you don't have to login as admin ?his tool shows the same IPA as mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 10, 2003 Author Share Posted September 10, 2003 If you can't write to hosts, the tool won't work. So you need an account with admin rights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 It's his own home computer, only he uses it, what could be the cause of this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 11, 2003 Author Share Posted September 11, 2003 Deleting C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts and clicking Set in the tool again might solve it.If it doesn't, ask him to open a command prompt and to type "ping servserv.westwood.com". Let him post the output here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 Hi Olaf,I tried out the command ping server etc, and the test runs but the window closes instantly after the ping test, how do I get it to stay on the desktop, so that I can read it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 11, 2003 Author Share Posted September 11, 2003 Hi Olaf,I tried out the command ping server etc, and the test runs but the window closes instantly after the ping test, how do I get it to stay on the desktop, so that I can read it ?You have to open a command prompt, that's Start - Run - cmd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 This is my ping test results:[attachment archived by Gobalopper] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 11, 2003 Author Share Posted September 11, 2003 That's with XWIS disabled. You need to run ping with XWIS enabled (click Set). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 I don't have any problems connecting to your site, but my buddie does, I am still waiting for him to contact me.Sorry, you were right about admin rights on his pc.It's so long since I used win 2k and when I did I didn't use it for long, about two weeks.He's forgotton his Admin password ?So it appears as though he's logging on as a guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 11, 2003 Author Share Posted September 11, 2003 He should recover the admin password or reinstall the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 Yeah I told him that too. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 Well my friend found his password and a <tech buddie of his came to his house, but they still can't get onto your server ?I'm really at a loss as to why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 I tried to play Sendakon on Olafs server, but got the same freeze up on the connecting screen ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 12, 2003 Author Share Posted September 12, 2003 Which connecting screen?Before logging in to XWIS or after starting the game with him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 after starting the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 12, 2003 Author Share Posted September 12, 2003 Are you able to play him on the official server? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 The same thing happens on wol.By the way ,now I can only login on your server Olaf.I get an error message when I set or reset the IRC client switch.Program not responding ? This gets weirder and weirder, now I can login to the official server again, but I can't close the client switch by clicking on the red X at the top right hand corner ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 12, 2003 Author Share Posted September 12, 2003 If the same thing happens on WOL it's probably not a bug in XWIS.Just 'kill' the app if it says not responding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 I do kill the App, but now I can't switch between the two servers ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 12, 2003 Author Share Posted September 12, 2003 Open it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 you seem to be someone of many words.The client isn't responding , windows keeps asking me to report it to microsoft, I just don't get why it was working fine and now it doesn't.Could you maybe come up with a solution longer than two or three words ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTF Posted September 13, 2003 Author Share Posted September 13, 2003 Find a file named hosts in your Windows dir. Open it with notepad. To play on XWIS, add this line: "62.216.18.38 servserv.westwood.com".To play on WOL, remove that line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 There's got to be another way !It must be related to all the crashes i've had trying to connect to other players online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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