27-03-2005 00:15									#1
	Server setup. Inflate your Upload Space

I haven't found a good place to learn about setting up a server, so maybe this is where I'll start?

Currently I have freeciv running just fine on one machine (serverA). I have no problem connecting to the game with civclient on port 5555. The problem starts when I try to connect to the server from another machine (clientB). I just get the error

code:
connectinon refused

code:
ServerA/ClientA: 192.168.2.3
ServerB/ClientB: 192.168.2.108

code:
Name: clientB
Host: 192.168.2.108
Port: 5555

code:
Name: clientA
Host: localhost
Port: 5555

	27-03-2005 01:57									#2
	Put an end to popups!

You know what? I bet that METASERVER thing is related. Initially I thought that it was for some kind of "BIG" server... maybe not. Perhaps it's required even for a local LAN server?

	27-03-2005 14:22									#3
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Does Gentoo enable a firewall by default? Check that port 5555 is not being blocked on the host machine.

You can also check you can get to the freeciv server port by typing:
telnet address_of_server 5555
for example: telnet 192.168.1.100 5555

And see if you get a "Connected to" message. You can exit the telnet session with Ctrl-] then type quit at the prompt.

Good luck!