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Grand Bleu de Gascogne posted this in #questions
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Grand Bleu de GascogneOP
Hi all. I recently made a server for my family hosted on an old PC. I did not port forward as I don't think I need to if it's only LAN. I tried joining, worked fine. Family member 1 tried joining, worked fine. Family member 3 tried joining, didn't work. We have tried every single thing we can think of all day long and we don't know what to do. Basically, when they put the IP, it just does not load the server, it has a grey logo and does not say it is online, on my PC it says on Minecraft the server is up and ready. So they can't even join to see what the error is. Any advice or help? Completely new to servers. Thank you all.
Grand Bleu de GascogneOP
We have tried adding java through the firewall, tried different IPs, tried reboots, tried different launchers, tried everything we can think of.
I did not port forward as I don't think I need to if it's only LAN.This is correct.
Is the family member who is having issues on the correct network? Are they on a neighbor's wifi, or tethering on their phone or something? That's the simplest reason why this would be happening.
Grand Bleu de GascogneOP
We checked and we are all on the exact same wifi connection.
all windows?
Grand Bleu de GascogneOP
No, my main PC is Linux and the server PC is Linux too. Other PCs are Windows 11.
and you've checked all PCs individually to ensure they're on the same subnet and everything?
ipconfig on the Windows machines, etc?Grand Bleu de GascogneOP
If I'm going to be honest with you haha, I'm not the best at IT stuff, I literally just looked at the bottom right and made sure we're all on the same wifi.
Open a command prompt on the windows machines, run ipconfig. It'll show internal IP addresses as well as the IP address of the "default gateway" (the router). ensure that the internal IPs are all relatively similar (e.g. 192.168.0.XXX) and that they all have the same default gateway. @ me when you're done checking. pictures optional but helpful if you wanna take a quick shitty phone pic of the output on each machine. Linux machines don't have ipconfig, but you can search up an equivalent for your distribution if you wanna check there, too.
Grand Bleu de GascogneOP
Really appreciate this. I'm going to have to check tomorrow and @ you then, made this post super late at night thinking it would take a while for someone to respond. 👍
@Grand Bleu de Gascogne Really appreciate this. I'm going to have to check tomorrow and @ you then, made this post super late at night thinking it would take a while for someone to respond. 👍
Haha, no worries. And yeah, we can be quick at times. Always happy to hear that we were TOO fast. 😂
Grand Bleu de GascogneOP
Take it as a compliment, better than basically every tech support I've ever used. 😉
Repo is just better like that
@PM_ME_YOUR_REPO Open a command prompt on the windows machines, run ipconfig. It'll show internal IP addresses as well as the IP address of the "default gateway" (the router). ensure that the internal IPs are all relatively similar (e.g. 192.168.0.XXX) and that they all have the same default gateway. @ me when you're done checking. pictures optional but helpful if you wanna take a quick shitty phone pic of the output on each machine. Linux machines don't have ipconfig, but you can search up an equivalent for your distribution if you wanna check there, too.
Grand Bleu de GascogneOP
Right, subnets masks are identical, default gateways are identical and local IPV4 addresses have the same start.
@Grand Bleu de Gascogne Right, subnets masks are identical, default gateways are identical and local IPV4 addresses have the same start.
Can the client having those issues connect to any other servers? Like hypixel.net for example?
@PM_ME_YOUR_REPO Can the client having those issues connect to any other servers? Like hypixel.net for example?
Grand Bleu de GascogneOP
We actually tried that yeah, on Hypixel, and it worked no problem. We've also played on worlds opened to LAN normally before with no issues.
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