MQ2Auth Issue

[40oz] · Post by **[40oz]** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:50 pm

Ok, here is my setup.

I have 5 computers, each has EQ on them.

Computer 1 - Main computer. Has a writeable network share "MQ2-Beta"
Computer 2-5 - Seconday Computers, run MQ2 over the network, run EQ off their local drives

This has always worked for me. Since the implementation of MQ2Auth I have tried several combinations of setting up and compiling, and I can't seem to get things working. Computer 1 can ALWAYS use MQ2, and the rest of the computers can always run it, but it will not inject on computers 2-5.

Here is the most recent process I used, which should have worked IMHO.

Fresh Unzip of the latest MQ2-Beta from yesterday.
Run MQ2Auth on computer 1
Run MQ2Auth on computer 2, 3, 4, 5
Compile MQ2-Beta with computer 1 using rebuild all to get rid of intermediate files that may or may not be there.
Run MQ2 on all computers, run EQ, see if it worked...

Now is it because i'm running MQ2Auth over the network? Having to do it any other way would drive me up the wall having to copy files and shit. It's easy enough to run one extra executable on all my computers before I compile, but having to juggle files and shit just becomes a nuisance.

If i did something wrong, let me know. If your code doesn't support this, you may wish to think about it I'm sure their are others who don't wanna juggle stuff around (or use ARCHAIC floppys~)

[40oz] · Post by **[40oz]** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:52 pm

Forgot to mention:

All machines have WinXP with newest service packs.
Compiling with VS.net 2003 Enterprise Edition
Using basic Windows peer-to-peer networking, not running anything gay like novell or what have you
I tend to run 2 or more copies of EQ on each machine. If i need to run MQ2Auth a similar amount of times, I need to know.

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:17 pm

I'm assuming you're running MQ2Auth.exe via the mapped network drives, from the same machine. You have to physically go to the machine and cause it to run on that machine, or you're only getting your local machine's authorization. Running an .exe hosted on a mapped drive still makes it use your current computer's memory, registry, etc.

[40oz] · Post by **[40oz]** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:35 pm

say i go to computer 2...

i navigate through "my network places" to mq2auth.exe and run it...

it's running it on computer 2, even if it's reading the exe from the other computer... thats why i thought it should work... i'm gonna give another idea i had a go, or i'll just copy the damn files heh

[40oz] · Post by **[40oz]** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:42 pm

ok i don't know why it didn't work the first time...

but i just tried those steps again and it worked this time... who knows...

but it works over the network so you don't have to copy any files for those who are wondering. just so long as you go to each computer and run MQ2Auth from there... which is what i did both times why it didn't work i have no clue.

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:43 pm

Yeah that should work fine then