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[Ikaruga]

Hi all.

Recently, I've been playing Age of Empires 2 again and had a great time !

However, I had a strange problem : I have two PCs at home, both on WinXP and linked to a router, and AoE2 works perfectly on LAN.

A friend came home with his PC (WinXP too), linked to my router, and couldn't even see the game I created. (File sharing and everything worked great, though). And when he created a game, I could see it but couldn't join it. We both double checked our firewalls, antiviruses and such.

Anyone has an idea ?

Thanks in advance. 

[kg333]

A friend came home with his PC (WinXP too), linked to my router, and couldn't even see the game I created. (File sharing and everything worked great, though). And when he created a game, I could see it but couldn't join it. We both double checked our firewalls, antiviruses and such.

I've had this problem before with Vista, but first time it was due to AoEII not playing nicely with Vista's new private/public network scheme, and second time to Vista's default firewall blocking incoming connections to AoEII (pesky "block incoming connections?" box in the background).

I'm betting your friend has a firewall blocking AoEII that he doesn't know about.  Try joining up as an Internet game using one of your local IPs...if that doesn't work, he's got something blocking it.

KG 

[Apple Master]

Just use voobly.

[kg333]

Just use voobly.

Isn't that a bit of overkill for a LAN game?

KG

[Ikaruga]

Voobly sounds interesting.

But I doubt it'll work for a LAN because we'll both use the same external IP address. Maybe redirecting ports or something like that will do the trick...
I'll try this.

Thanks for your help !

[Apple Master]

It's not really overkill. If they're having a problem, and there's something that'll more than likely fix it, why not?