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How to play microsoft ages of empires multiplayer, via SSH Tunneling?
Hello,
Here is a new difficult mission, ssh tunneling because one friend has a poor router brand. So he'll login with putty to my linux via SSH, 10.1.1.10. He tunnel-ed dynamic those necessary ports, below, with putty into Tunnels. My pc 10.1.1.15 microsoft xp installed with ages of empires cannot see him to 10.1.1.10, as LAN TCP IP gaming multiplayer. to finally play it: http://onlineuniverse.files.wordpres...piderblood.jpg Any experts in those fields? -- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895864 |
Are you running XP with Service Pack 3 installed? I don't know about Age of Empires 2, but the original Age of Empires can't do multiplayer when running on Service Pack 3 due to SP3's version of DirectX not including DirectPlay. The solution I use is to run Service Pack 2 in a virtual machine, and I use Hamachi (also installed in the vm) to create a VPN.
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But I am still confused how to make the connection. - LAN IP or Internet game. - He looks via putty SSH to my box, and Dynamic forward the ports on the linux box. then how to make the connection? (he's firewalled, so my linux box would host the connection) |
I think what he should do is choose LAN IP, and if/when it asks him to put in an IP address, enter "localhost" or "127.0.0.1". If this doesn't work, then I'm out of ideas :(
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but certainly few of users tried those not common ssh. 5pct of users have linux, so 0.0005pct can have tried eventually :) |
Oh ...
I think that I found better VPN ? which port? OUT will be possible from my friend through his crap py router |
my putty wasnt right
should have been: click on local 2300-2400 localhost:2300-2400 then click on add that tunnels the ports to the localhost but it is theory, no idea if it works here a shot of putty: http://home.highertech.net/~john/Put...ty-tunnel.html didnt try yet |
Okay, so now, I can see my friend using VPN into my NETWORK. I see his created game, I click to join him :
other sense he doesnt see me. But it says : "Unable to join" WHo plays ages of empires II, it seems to be a frequent issue. It is so strange because I could do it last year. The original cdrom is of no scratches, because I loved that game and always have been very careful. So it seems that windows 2000 and windows 98 havent any issue of firewalling. so?? we can ping normally, and all ports are working. we have windows 2000 sp4 and windows 98se doest someone knows where this sort of event. solution could be in network config? Quote:
on my win98, my ipx spx is enable: Quote:
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wow Windows2000 and win98 worked, i.e. AOKII, they can play against each other and join games, both side !!
"IPX game shall be selected into the ages of empires" so for windows 98, you shall go into start > panel > network and install IPX forget LAN and Internet connection: not working. so tomorrow, continuing again with PUTTY and VPN, because vpn is too heavy thing. Putty and port forward is far the best, because SSH. |
I tried everything with PUTTY and LOCAL
and REMOTE forwarding 2300-2400 47624 and + those ipx and netbios port such as 139 somthing I target to do IPX connection for directplay, since it works Anyideas to make the tunneling working? :( Putty tunneling for ages of empires is not working Is there any guru in Informatic in this world ? March eventually? putty tunneing for ages is of impossible |
I would recommend trying something like openVPN for the multiplayer games, they tend to work best when using a VPN that is a bridged VPN, Hamachi is one of these but so is openVPN, you might have better luck with that.
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