MTA on the LAN -small prob

[Guest]

i'm well use to setting up and using lans

here are the cmd settings

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Walsh>ping -a localhost

Pinging laptop2 [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Walsh>ping laptop2

Pinging laptop2 [200.200.200.203] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 200.200.200.203: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Reply from 200.200.200.203: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Reply from 200.200.200.203: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Reply from 200.200.200.203: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 200.200.200.203:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Walsh>

as you can see localhost is 127.0.0.1 which is 200.200.200.203.

MTA Server for MTA 0.5

Name: 'MTA 0.5 NoName Server'

Port: 2003

Map: Vice City : Deathmatch

Maximum Players: 26

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Server successfully started on port 2003

Press Q to shutdown the server.

Administration access successfully started on port 4003

Admin+ successfully started on port 4003

All Seeing Eye listing enabled. Port 2126 must be accessable from the internet.

this is the server ....

as you can see its on port 2003.

i have a single crossover lan cable connecting two laptops

same domain as we can both access files on each others machine.

so communication is not the problem

the lan is not the problem

the ip is not the ptoblem

the port is not the problem

i can put in "localhost" @ port "2003" and connect

but i cant put in"laptop2" @ port "2003" or

"200.200.200.203" @ port 2003 and connect

any ideas???

Thanks in advance

Stephen Walsh

[Guest]

anyone at all ???

pretty plz?

[[XII]RazoR]

hm, im not a network expert nd stuff.. but i DO know that u r able to type like 'laptop2' and port 2003 and it works.. so i dont know how, but u can ;P

[Guest]

as soon as i type "laptop2"

and port 2003

i get cannot connect and all that, keeps timing out on me

the only way i can connect is if i type"localhost" but that not much help if i'm trying to connect to another machine

any ideas???

[Jani]

I don't understand, connecting to localhost:2003 from the computer which is hosting is fine, what is the name/IP of the other computer?

[Guest]

thanks mate

seems to have working with my test machine, i'll have to try it with the other laptop tomorrow

cheers