Half Life Lan restriction

[Scydow]

When I play with my friend on LAN and when I try to join the game he made on the LAN ( Me and my friend both bought the game ) it says:

Lan servers are restricted to local clients ( type c )

we both have the firewalls off so..
what is the problem and how to fix it?

thank you!

Scydow

[Pjspliff]

maybe "sv_lan 1" will help

[Scydow]

?? What do you mean ??

Is that a code or something??

~Scydow~:banana:

[NorthViking]

It's probably for the console, you type it in, in the console window.

[fdjc4]

to get the console up you needa press the tilde key ` its beside 1 on the keyboard.

[STi FlyBy]

Do you not have to select the "Enable console (~)" under Options->Controls->Advanced Controls?

If you're not on the same subnet, you probably won't be able to connect to his LAN game. You're both in the same house trying to start a LAN game? If you are, I assume you're connected via a router. If you could go into the command line and type in the "ipconfig" command. If you're connected to a Linksys router, you should each have an IP of 192.168.1.*

Also, if that doesn't work and you have a linksys router, open up IE and type 192.168.1.1 in your location bar and enter your appropriate user name and password (both "admin" by default). Click on the "Advanced" tab. Then go to the "DMZ host" and enter the IP address of the computer you want to create the LAN game ("this feature sets a local user to be exposed to the Internet. Any user on the Internet can access in/out data from the DMZ host. Enable the feature as you wish to use special-purpose service."). When you finish your game, I would highly suggest you put the DMZ host back to the default 0, because otherwise, your computer is opened up on the Internet, and that's just not too safe. I would only use the DMZ host during a LAN game (only time I use DMZ host is when I have a LAN party).

[Scydow]

Thank you so much, Ill try to make it work:)

[Tcop]

you get this error if your friend uses steam and you use the lan version :)

[Scydow]

that is really true? cause I got the cd borrowd from him ( we play LAN ) and we do not use steam, my friend HAS steam on his computer but he isn't using it
can you explain more?
thank you!

[Scydow]

Do you not have to select the "Enable console (~)" under Options->Controls->Advanced Controls?
It is for Hl1

Also, if that doesn't work and you have a linksys router, open up IE and type 192.168.1.1 in your location bar and enter your appropriate user name and password (both "admin" by default). Click on the "Advanced" tab. Then go to the "DMZ host" and enter the IP address of the computer you want to create the LAN game ("this feature sets a local user to be exposed to the Internet. Any user on the Internet can access in/out data from the DMZ host. Enable the feature as you wish to use special-purpose service."). When you finish your game, I would highly suggest you put the DMZ host back to the default 0, because otherwise, your computer is opened up on the Internet, and that's just not too safe. I would only use the DMZ host during a LAN game (only time I use DMZ host is when I have a LAN party).

I did that but then it say's could not connect or something like that ?
:flaming: :flaming:

Help please?

[STi FlyBy]

It is for Hl1

I did that but then it say's could not connect or something like that ?
:flaming: :flaming:

Help please?

This is probably a retorical question, but you're both connected to the same router, correct?

[Scydow]

Ever heard of Hamachi?
It gives a free LAN connection over the internet, it worked perfect for some time, but then...:redembarr

So yes, we are on the same connection LAN