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General FreeSpace => Multiplayer => Topic started by: Desertfox287 on October 12, 2009, 04:16:31 pm

Title: Lost connection problem
Post by: Desertfox287 on October 12, 2009, 04:16:31 pm

A friend of mine is trying to log on to FS2net but it says lost connection.

Title: Disconnected at login problem
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on October 12, 2009, 04:18:05 pm

Did they register and verify their account?  You can no longer log in with unverified accounts. 

Title: Disconnected at login problem
Post by: Desertfox287 on October 12, 2009, 04:24:21 pm

Yes, he says he did thanks for the snappy reply.

Title: Disconnected at login problem
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on October 12, 2009, 04:36:26 pm

Where exactly does he get to when he gets that message?  Did he follow the instructions in the first post? 

Title: Disconnected at login problem
Post by: Desertfox287 on October 12, 2009, 05:37:44 pm

He goes to log into PXO and then it says connection to server lost

Title: Disconnected at login problem
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on October 12, 2009, 06:11:08 pm

Have him delete the multi.cfg file in the data directory and try again.  It may be looking for the original PXO servers instead of FS2netD.

Title: Disconnected at login problem
Post by: Desertfox287 on October 12, 2009, 07:45:29 pm

he doesn't have a multi.cfg file only a text document

Title: Disconnected at login problem
Post by: The E on October 12, 2009, 07:49:53 pm

Well, it should be deleted.

Side note: It could be that his OS is hiding file extensions. In that case, it will show up as a text file. Should there be a text file called f2_open_pxo.cfg somewhere, delete that as well.

Title: Disconnected at login problem
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on October 12, 2009, 07:53:14 pm

Well there is a multi.log as well which may be the one showing as a text file.  Deleting it won't hurt anything either.  Not having a multi.cfg is fine but like E said look for a hidden version.

Title: Disconnected at login problem
Post by: Desertfox287 on October 12, 2009, 07:55:14 pm

It keeps saying he's been disconnected even after deleting the two files

Title: Re: Lost connection problem
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on October 12, 2009, 08:02:37 pm

Split this out into it's own topic.

Select the debug build (one ending in d) from the launcher and run it.  Attach both the FS2_Open and multi.log from the data directory.