Your trying to HOST on a machine that has ZA?? (even better your not trying
to host out the the real world)? I never ever got this to work, tried for
months to do so, back when ZA was fairly new, up to even version what,,, 3?
If you have a firewall/router, then technically all zone alarm is doing is,
protecting your machine from any other on the LAN. Oh wait, but you have
that server in the DMZ? Not a Good idea in my humble opinion.
Still if Im hosting to a local machine, the ip isnt one that can be seen on
the "net" and you should take the host OUT of the DMZ of the router, then
disable ZA (which is refusing any unsolicted connections from any computer).
This way you can race each other easy enough.
Now if your gonna do both, (host to that machine on the LOCAL net, & host
via Papy (allowing far off buddies to join you or not as you could just do
IP races) you should forward just the specifed ports from the router to the
NR hosting machine. This would be much better, instead of having that
hosting machine being in the DMZ. ZA in the PC setting in the DMZ, isn't
safe IMHO.
Last, to join a race in sierra or in ip (via internet) you dont have to
forward anything, or disable anything on the ZA (and 4 brands of
firewal/routers I have tried) because software on your computer "Requests"
the connection to be made, and us usually allowed (unless you set the
router/firwall not to allow anything). BTW this is why Spyware is a problem
because it can get on there, and then automatically start asking more "of
its kin" to move in. So that is why you forward (sometimes stated as
"allow" the ports from (incoming traffic) to the host machine, when you
host... machines that you "Dont Know" are asking for a port, and by
default Firewalls are set to no allow.
> Yes I had done that already.
>> Did you go into ZA's Program Control and change all selections for
>> the nascar EXE to "Allow"?
>> G Patricks
>>> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:28:47 -0700, "V \"fnugen\""
>>> with Zonealarm on. I checked the approriate areas to tell it to
>>> allow the useage. Any ideas on why it would not allow me??
>>> Zonealarm is still rather new to me. I tried a connection w/o
>>> Zonealarm on and it worked fine. Thanks
>>> V
>>>> Okay. I have started to give some games the MP tries. Got a better
>>>> system for my GF and we're trying some games through a Lan TCP/IP
>>>> connection. I ran into trouble with N2K3 tonight. It finds the IP
>>>> addresses fine and everything seems to be in order, BUT we can
>>>> never connect to each other whether it be host OR join. The
>>>> connection just keeps saying timed out. I can't find anywhere in
>>>> the game to address timing out. It finds the LAN game and lists
>>>> it, what am I not doing right to have this happen?? I can MP other
>>>> games over the same LAN network. Also, how can we setup a game
>>>> where it is only her and I and set number of AI drivers?? Neither
>>>> of us are anywhere NEAR ready for other "real" drivers. Both games
>>>> are up to date with patches and all. Mods and game run fine
>>>> outside of MP..........looking forward to racing her and a field
>>>> of AI real soon. Thanks for any help.
>>>> V
