Soldat Server not Showing up in Lobby on Ad-Hoc WLAN

[archer007]

Hi,

I have a soldat dedicated server that runs off of an ad-hoc wlan compromised of 3 laptops on running on XP. The other laptops can connect to my host laptop and play a game of soldat, but they cannot "see" the server in the lobby area when I scan for soldat games on a LAN. This is important because the ad-hoc ip address assignment is totally random.

My comp (the host) is an hp dv8000t with Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG running windows XP Media center 2005, and Norton Internet Security 2006 v9.1.0.33., Windows Firewall disabled. I set NIS 2006 to allow all communications for soldat.

I get a weird error from the server when I start it on my comp:

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Could Not Bind File Server Socket: 23083

I installed the regular soldat package 1.3.1. I think the dedicated server is in the same directory as the game, which I heard is bad. Does the default install package of soldat install the server and the game in the same directory? How do I tell if this is so, and how do I fix it then?

I poked around on the web for awhile, but I couldntfind anything for regular lan setup, much less wireless g ad-hoc play.

[Denacke]

The LAN lobby doesn't work in Soldat at this time. I'm not sure when it'll be fixed, if ever.

Get the real dedicated server from: http://www.soldat.pl/down-s.html , the built-in server in the client install isn't as good as the dedicated and is outdated.

If you get a socket error it means it can't bind the file server port I believe, make sure there are no firewalls preventing it from doing so. Others know more of this so I hope they'll shed some more light on that

[Gold]

LAN doesnt work? that sucks

[Frenchie]

Thats weird, the LAN lobby worked for me once.
I was able to see the server.

But it was before ver 1.3.1 (?1.2.1)