XWIS: XCC WOL IRC Server

[Atomic Mitten]

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.

[XTF]

That doesn't make a difference. Is he logged in as admin? Which IPA does his tool show?

[Atomic Mitten]

in windows 2000 you don't have to login as admin ?

his tool shows the same IPA as mine.

[XTF]

If you can't write to hosts, the tool won't work. So you need an account with admin rights.

[Atomic Mitten]

It's his own home computer, only he uses it, what could be the cause of this problem.

[XTF]

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.

[Atomic Mitten]

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 ?

[XTF]

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

[Atomic Mitten]

This is my ping test results:[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

[XTF]

That's with XWIS disabled. You need to run ping with XWIS enabled (click Set).

[Atomic Mitten]

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

[XTF]

He should recover the admin password or reinstall the OS.

[Atomic Mitten]

Yeah I told him that too. lol

[Atomic Mitten]

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.

[Atomic Mitten]

I tried to play Sendakon on Olafs server, but got the same freeze up on the connecting screen ???

[XTF]

Which connecting screen?

Before logging in to XWIS or after starting the game with him?

[Atomic Mitten]

after starting the game.

[XTF]

Are you able to play him on the official server?

[Atomic Mitten]

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 ?

[XTF]

If the same thing happens on WOL it's probably not a bug in XWIS.

Just 'kill' the app if it says not responding.

[Atomic Mitten]

I do kill the App, but now I can't switch between the two servers ?

[XTF]

Open it again.

[Atomic Mitten]

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 ?

[XTF]

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.

[Atomic Mitten]

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.