LAN games not shown in browser

from Demigod Forums

My wife and I are both on wired connections behind the same router, both using Vista 64, with Comodo firewall (set to treat Demigod as a trusted app) with windows firewall disabled. Neither of us has hamachi installed afaik. Neither of us can connect to each other when we try to host LAN games (the person looking to join never sees the hosts lobby listed in the LAN game browser). We try after every patch and it never works. The only way we can seem to play together is the custom internet game (everything else seems to be a totally random matchmaking system?). I prefer the internet game since our games mean favor points going to our online accounts, but sometimes roadrunner goes down and we still want to play.

2,803 views 14 replies
Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Hi sir,

Vista is crap like that, you must manually "allow" computer 1 to be able to see computer 2"

All this is done in network configurations menu, not completely sure where to guide you since I don't use Vista anymore but It's there.

You could try to manually set your ip: go to your connection and manually go to properties. tcp/ip > properties and then set:

Ip to 10.0.0.4 for computer 1 and your other computer to 10.0.0.5.

Your internet will not work but this is the best and most secure way of "lan between computers"

Hope this helps

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

What? We have standard 192.168.x.x addresses from DHCP by the router.  I don't know what you mean by "allow" computer 1 to be able to see computer 2". If you mean netbios names and windows shares, that works already but I doubt that functionality would be indicitive of Demigod's.

Start11 - Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11.
Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Hm, list the content of ipconfig here (from both PCs). Maybe some network adapter is interfering.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

We both have ethernet adapter and a bunch of tunnel adapter things which are apparently part of Vista's IPV6 implementation.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Well, post it anyway ;).

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

Mine:


Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::987:6c38:ca3e:969a%10
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 15:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 11:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

 

Hers:

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::f59c:e72b:d162:d761%10
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.3
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 15:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 16:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 12:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

 

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

Yeah, looks alright. I have no idea why it wouldn't work.

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

Can you even enter computer 2 from computer 1?

yes, Vista is loaded with security which prevents computers to enter each other without "legally" or manually allowed to do so.

Check list you can work with is:

-Is your computer is the same network group? MSHOME/WORKGROUP

-Can you see or enter each others computers      Run/>\computername

-Firewall on or off?

-Accessebility, allow all user to connect to my computer (Somthing like that, should be in your network config.) That is what i meant.

Reply #9 from Demigod Forums Top

It sounds like you're talking about netbios and windows share stuff. I have multiple shares my wife uses on my machine, some are even mapped as network drives. We can defintely access each other's windows shares and ping and stuff. Results are the same whether comodo is on or off, although it is already treating Demigod as a trusted app.

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

Just to be sure, try to uninstall Comodo (and any Antivirus Solution), to rule out any interference. Even when Firewalls and Antivirus are deactivated or have an application in their list, they can still cause problems.

Reply #11 from Demigod Forums Top

I feel like internet play wouldn't work if Comodo was interefering though.

Reply #12 from Demigod Forums Top

Well, internet play works differently, because the list of available games is acquired in a different way than in LAN games. The actual connection is the same.

Reply #13 from Demigod Forums Top

I remembered we already tried disabling the firewall though, on both our machines at the same time.

Reply #14 from Demigod Forums Top

Yes, but firewalls can still interfere with the windows network stack, even when disabled. So just to be sure, you could try to uninstall it completely on both machines.