Hosting a LAN Game

Haku

So I tried everything the instructions say everywhere on the Forum or the wiki/faq, but nothing is working. Why can't I just simply LAN the game or host a server???? It says 'looking up host' and then says 'disconnected' after I try to start or connect to 'localhost' no matter what port I try to use. I have my firewall off and everything. I'm just trying to LAN so I don't see why this is so complicated. I even tried hamachi.

DaniJ

While I can certainly appreciate the frustration this must be causing, you haven't given us much information about your particular setup.

skyjake

Haku wrote:

It says 'looking up host' and then says 'disconnected' after I try to start or connect to 'localhost' no matter what port I try to use.

I assume by "it" you mean the Doomsday Shell. The server might fail to start if it doesn't find any IWAD files. From the Shell wiki page:

You must ensure that Doomsday will find the required IWAD files for the selected game mode. In the Shell Settings/Preferences you can configure where to look for IWADs.

If you post here your doomsday.out log file from the "server-runtime" folder we might be able to help more.