Post Fri Apr 18, 2003 5:50 pm

Hosting a server - please help!

I tried to host a server for me and a few of my friends to play on. I started up the server and I connected tothe game without any problem. A friend however tried to connect to this server, but couldn't (it basically said it was taking too long). I am using a 'SMC Networks ADSL Barricade' 2 port router with built in ADSL modem and firewall. Is this why it is probably not working (as I suspect it may be) and if so how can I solve the problem. I tried looking through the readme and the server readme in the 'extras' section of the CD but I'm afraid this didn't help. The first of these told me there might be a problem with using routers and firwalls (which I already knew). The second meant very little to me as I don't know a huge amount about servers (although it mentioned there might be a problem with Windows me and server hosting and I do have Me). Can anyone please tell me whether this is the likely cause of the problem and if so how to fix it.