Using swerdna’s brilliant tutorial for setting up networking with Suse11, I’m now trying to play Frozen Bubble via Lan. I can create a (frozen-bubble) server, but the other computer (also on Suse11) can’t find it and connect to it and vice versa.
Do I have to allow some ports in the firewall or so?
Many thanks
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Probably… LAN game implies communication, and like a good OS, SUSE
comes with a firewall blocking everything. Find out which ports your
app uses and needs to have open (TCP or UDP… have the specifics) and
then open them in Yast: Security and users: Firewall: Allowed Services:
Advanced.
Good luck.
gilap wrote:
> Using swerdna’s brilliant tutorial for setting up networking with
> Suse11, I’m now trying to play Frozen Bubble via Lan. I can create a
> (frozen-bubble) server, but the other computer (also on Suse11) can’t
> find it and connect to it and vice versa.
> Do I have to allow some ports in the firewall or so?
> Many thanks
>
>
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Thank you.
When I start frozen-bubble from the Konsole, it says the following.
-l: creating UDP server for answering broadcast server discover, on default port 1511
-d: debug mode on: will not daemonize and will display log messages on STDERR
-n: setting servername to ‘lan-gila’
-z: no preferred language for users of the server
[2008-10-15 20:36:57.327] INFO log.c:75(logging_init): Starting log. Messages displayed: INFO, ERROR.
[2008-10-15 20:36:57.328] INFO net.c:909(create_server): Created TCP game server on port 1511. Servername is ‘lan-gila’.
I have allowed the ports 1511 UDP and TCP on the firewall of both computers and on the router. But still nothing. Am I still missing something?
“Servername is ‘lan-gila’.”
It looks okay I think… it says the connection is set up. I’d say either you or the other person still has to connect to that server somehow.
Hi,
The other computer has the same Konsole readout, when trying to start a lan game, only it’s called lan-dave. Maybe I haven’t allowed the ports properly?
I went via Yast > Security and Users > Firewall > Allowed Services.
It says on the first dropdown menu “external zone”, on the second dropdown menu “DHCP Server” and under the field “allowed services” “samba server”.
I then clicked the bottom right button and “advanced” and added the ports to the list.
I can find and connect to internet servers, though.
Thanks for your help.
Actually I’m wondering if I set up the network correctly, although it’s possible to access the files on both computers.
On another LAN-game, I was given (as the server) the ip address 127.12.34.56 for others to connect to.
But for the samba server I only allowed the addresses 192.168.0.0-9.
when I type “ifconfig” I get the following readout.
eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:7D:01:0A:B9
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:7dff:fe01:ab9/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:24667 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22721 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:20920607 (19.9 Mb) TX bytes:3932411 (3.7 Mb)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0x6000
lo
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:275 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:275 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17267 (16.8 Kb) TX bytes:17267 (16.8 Kb)
I’m wondering if the 127.0.0.1 mentioned under lo has anything to do with it or am I confusing myself unnecessarily?
This is the first time I set up a lan with 2 suse11 computers. I had no problem doing a Suse/WinXP one.