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here i am testing my shard out ,its been working fine for 2 weeks .then all of a sudden wham it freezes up and i go to relog .and cant login.
i can login as far as the screen showing the server
but when i click next for it to show my charecters nothing the client just locks .
i have tryed install a beand new pol right off the web and i get the same thing .
anyone have any clues everthing checks out

now whats really wierd is i put in a new server.cfg file like this

GameServer
{
Name POL local
IP 127.0.0.1
Port 5003
}
GameServer
{
Name POL
IP 192.168.1.100
Port 5003
}
GameServer
{
Name POL-ip
IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx edited out
Port 5003
}

and i can connect and my wife can coonect but onone else from out side can coonect to the shard.
it just hangs at getting your charecter list after you choose your server

Do you have a router or firewall between your computer and the internet? If so, then you may need to change the settings on those to allow outside access. There have been some posts in the past discussing this and I am not an expert, so I recommend you search the forum for those old posts.

Any other details you can give us would help us zero in on the problem. Good luck!

yes i have a lynksys router and its set to forward the ports just fine ,the shards where working fine uptill one week ago then all of a sudden none not even us could log to them off our computers.
so i played with it and i finally got my shard working ppl can log to it after i replaced the server.cfg to one i got out off the net from the pol web site.
but even changing my wifes all it does is let her log to it but noone outside can get to it and all the forwarding and ips and ports are correct .
its driving me batty

This might sound stupid but are people selecting the right server? It will obviously not work if they select the Local or the LAN version of POL.

yes we tested for 2 days all kinds of differnt things nothing seems to work

Does the shard console shows they are making 2 connections and then 1 connection is dropped?
How does the console react during the logon attempt?

Stephen Donald.

yes two connections then one drops and they hang then client hangs and errors out

No other console stuff, like an unknown message packet error? If not, then that sort of leaves out the client version and the loginserver connection itself via the router.

It's almost as if the logon server is working fine since it appears the remote person can see all 3 connection names, but it's not connecting to the game server itself properly. I know they are on the same computer, but something has changed!

You sound like you know what you are doing so I won't try and give you all the settings - do you use other ports or encryption for UO - eg in pkg\character\uoclient.cfg? If so, is the listenport set to 0 in pol.cfg?

Did you do some seemingly unrelated script upgrades lately?

I'd be trying to remove all the ports exept for the internet one and see if a bare-bones approach works.

Barebones means put the port and encryption in pol.cfg, comment out the listener entries in uoclient.cfg, and having the one GameServer in servers.cfg.


Regards,
Stephen Donald.

tryed other ports just one port ,checked the router upgrade the fireware everything but nothig is working which is wierd cause mine was working fine then wham it was doing what hers did i got mine fixed but hers still wont work, which is wierd the only thing i did to get mine to work was putting in a new severs.cfg file and editing the ports.which got mine working fine but wont do hers .even thoug she can connect to it i cant connect to hers and where on the same router should have no provelms and she can connect to mine.


rips out more hair

I can see your frustrating, as that was a long sentence! I'm afraid I am getting too confused to help as I am getting mixed up between who can and can't get to the game when you tried things.
Don't lose you hair. Remember, this is supposed to be fun, right?

Regards,
Stephen Donald.

ok it was late last night about 4 am !
here is what is going on, both me and my wife have wod/pol shards.
hers stoped working a week ago , noone not even my wife could log to her shard even on 127.0.0.1.
mine worked fine then 2 days later while i was in my shard decorating and testing my game hung and i rebooted uo client and wham i couldnt log to my shard.
no mater what i did we couldnt log to our shard,then i decided to try something so i went and got a new server.cfg file out of pol download and edited it.
now i can log to my server on my computer and others can log to it just fine from outside our router.
but no mater what i do to my wifes server noo0ne can log in even when i transfered it to my computer to test if maybe her computer was messed up and still cant log to it even using 127.0.0.1