Friends can't login

[Husky]

K i got my server up so i can get on but my friends can't Is there a way to jsut use uo login.cfg rather then gateway?

[Xuri]

Set up the [play server list]-section of your uox.ini like this:

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[play server list]
{
SERVERLIST=Local Server,127.0.0.1,2593
SERVERLIST=Online Server,X.X.X.X,2593
}

Replace X.X.X.X with your internet IP-address, and tell your friends to add a "new local server" in UOGateway. Make sure they enter your internet IP under server dns/IP, and they should be able to connect.

If you are behind a firewall/router, you might have to use the external IP address to connect to in UOGateway, and use the internal IP address you get from the firewall/router in the SERVERLIST entry above (for ONLINE Server), and then forward connections to port 2593 in the router to your internal IP address. Hope that made sense.

[Husky]

k thats what we tried , i do have a router how do i found out what my external IP is?

[Xuri]

Your external IP is the IP that is "visible" to the outside world. You can see it for instance by going to http://www.whatismyip.com/

Your internal IP is the IP your computer gets from the router, for instance 192.168.1.34 (my internal IP).

You must use the internal IP in UOX.INI, make other people connect to the external IP through UOGateway, then tell your router (by changing it's setup/settings) to forward any connections to port 2593 to your internal IP.

How exactly you make the router forward the IP depends on which router you have

[giwo]

There are many options for finding your external IP. Most likely your router (if it is a modern one) has a configuration utility accessible via a web browser that would have said information. Alternatively there are tools you can download that will detect and tell you your external IP. The way I usually find mine is going to this website: https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

In the "machine name" your IP should be a group of 4 numbers seperated by dashes. Also further down the page it says specifically what your IP address is as formatted with decimals.

[Husky]

okay great thank you. My friends can successfully connect.

Now we're just running into problem with
1)making new accounts
2)creating a second GM account

is there any other helpful links or ideas?

Thank you again

[Xuri]

Ok, first - there are two ways to add more accounts. (Both ways are easiest done while UOX3 isn't running.)

A) Open accounts.adm, copy & paste more account sections, giving each new account-section a unique section-ID (1 higher than the previous one). Then change the username & password, and make sure all the CHARACTER-# lines say 0xffffffff [UNKNOWN]. Save, login.

B) Open (or create a new file with the same name if it doesn't exist) UOX3/ACCOUNTS/NEWACCOUNTS.ADM, and setup new accounts using this format, one per line:
user=name,pass,flags(hexid),e-mail

Example:

user=xuri,secret,0x0,xuri@sensewave.com
user=john,doe,0x0,john@doe.com
etc

(Remember to press enter after the last line, or that line won't be read.) Now, when you next start up UOX3, it will read newaccounts.adm and add any accounts it finds there.

Next, to make a second "admin account", just open accounts.adm and edit the FLAGS section for the second account, so it reads:
FLAGS=0x8000