Question about connecting to server

[Discord]

Alright, I am sure this question has been asked many times, and for that I am sorry. But I have not been able to find an answer after about an hour of searching.

I have downloaded the tutorials and examples for unity, and I was working on the Unity IslandDemo. It works fine when I run it all locally, but when I get a friend to try and connect to my computer, he can't connect.

I opened port 9339, disabled my firewall, and told him to connect to my ip (65.13.92.248). i used whatismyip.com to figure that out.

I tried configuring the server to run on 65.13.92.248, but the server failed to start, so i left it to the default 127.0.0.1.

When I read the documentation, it made it sound like all I had to do was change the ip address in the config.xml from 127.0.0.1 to 65.13.92.248, but that didnt work.

Anyone have an answer to this (probably) simple question?

[ThomasLund]

Hi Discord

It sounds like a question more suitable for one of the other forums, as its not really API related (from the sound of it).

But besides changing the IP in the config.xml + turning off your local firewall, you could still be behind another firewall. It could also be, that you need to enable NAT'ing in your router - if you are not connected directly to the internet with your maching, but to a local network.

Best
Thomas

[Discord]

Ok. And I wasn't really sure where to post this, since it involves using the unity tutorial.

I will try posting to another part of the forum.

Thanks.

Discord

[ThomasLund]

But as I said - try to look at your NAT settings (if you have a private local network). That would exhibit that behaviour you talk about

/Thomas