Maybe you don't have the TCP/IP protocol on. This happened with a few of the games I have tried to play on my home network. To turn this on, (in XP) go to Network Connections, go to Local Area Connection Properties, and under general there should be a little box with Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) click it, and try again. (If this is already on, I don't know, sory =))

its already on, but thnx anyway.
but if u find out, u no where the forum is.

I got a similar problem. I run FLServer and then run Freelancer and I can't find my own server in LAN. I'm running WinXP, I do have a network card and the TCP/IP protocol is installed. Did this happen to anyone else?

I at first ran flserver on my main 'puter. I had a hardware gateway/firewall and a software firewall. I had to make open ports in the firewalls to let DirectPlay (some M$ software) talk so FL MP and flserver would work. To check what ports you need open read some rtf/txt/html file that comes with FL and it lists the ports to open, I think 2300-2302. You can change that port (it actually only uses one) like I did but you must add a switch to flserver's command line when starting. When I moved flserver to a dedicated 'puter it was on my home network and the port already open so there should have been no problem.

Well there was. I used to run Win2K on this dedicated 'puter. But I couldn't get flserver to talk to anything, even the FL MP in the home network (LAN). I tried for three days but no joy. I switched to WinXPPro and three hours later it worked. (I will go back some day though!)

You can try troubleshooting. When you switch flserver to console view, do you see successful connection messages? flserver works. Does your FL MP find the global server and all FL servers except yours? FL MP works. In my Win2k case flserver wouldn't connect and I thought my problem was a Win2k security/permission issue. Good luck.

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{RN}Earendil
SysAdmin of Boston Freelancer server {RN}