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[LetterX]

You say when you ran it from your IP/local IP, you got "Server.dat is damaged. Please Reinstall the client!" message, as stated here "but every time i try to log into it with the new server.dat the client says it can't read the server.dat and i need to re-install the game." Conquer has a mechanism in it, that unless edited out (or bypassed), prevents you from using IPs assigned to your PC.

[samehvan]

Originally Posted by eshemaun

actually that was a great idea, it's kinda wild really i had an odd result with it. my hamachi number i did that with 001.111.111.111 and for me it worked fine i connected no problem but no one else could if they used that ip. but when i tried it with my static ip i had no success what i think happened was since the hamachi shows up as a connection on my computer it was able to re-route the ip to my new static number. but no one else could connect that wasn't on local host. whats even weirder to me is the ip that people have in their client to log into my server is the origonal dynamic one and the server at the time was running on my static one. well they could still connect. but a drunk driver hit my telephone pole and my dynamic ip that they always used to connect died but no one dc-ed from the game. but no one could log in. to bad my client won't freaken accept my server.dat. hell that makes me wonder about a dial up just to log in lol.

ooooh my God , it worked !!! ,, hehe as they say "sometimes the maddest thoughts are the greatest " .
i tried it to make sure how it goes , and i actually couldn't figure out how come it worked for u but not for ur friends , there will be 3 kinds of probs i can think of
1-they loads the game and tried to connect without the server.dat fail msg that means they ddnt r8 down the r8 IP or server name or if u r using the loc/out server names with 2 responding Ips then u should check them out
2-they had the server.dat error and that will be impossible if u r using the same client files
3-they had the error msg while trying to load the game and that will be 1 of 2 ,the server.dat they have is really corrupted and they need to replace it with ur version OR they have a dif names on server name and flash name at the server.dat file , suppose to be the same

that is all i can think of , with me it worked very well but without hamatchi ,i think hamatchi will be less buggy , so u may tell what exactly was the problem with them

[eshemaun]

so far i found out that the client will accept a format like this also 111.111.111.111 and 11.11.111.111 to bad my service provider wouldn't give me an ip that was in one of those formats. so to add extra bandwidth to my server i need to get a router with link aggregation and get another internet line from the same provider because i know their ip's work and just keep adding lines. this realy sucks and is a little more costly but unless anyone can come up with a better idea for my server.dat problem i'm stuck running my server of of a puny 8 mbps download and 786 upload.

[samehvan]

put a copy of your server.dat , i wanna have a look to it

[eshemaun]

no sense in it now i got rid of that isp. gonna just get a link aggregation router and a few more lines from the isp i already have. but the ip was 173.10.199.177
and the server.dat hated it wouldn't even try to connect to it. but i changed the ip to the one i always used and it worked just fine. anyway for curiosity i would like to find a fix for it. but the problem is no longer urgant to me, but it might really help someone else. so if you care to answer or find a reason why then feel free to express your opinions or solutions.