So here's the dealio. I'm a student, and we have a very restrictive network policy here. I can play minecraft smp, but I REALLY want to be able to host my own server, if only for my buds to play on. Does anyone know of a free (remember, I'm a broke student) proxy service or anything else that'll let me fake an open port that my friends can connect to? I have tried Hamachi (sp?) and it turns out that you have to pay for that specific feature.
Try to be specific, and use small words. :biggrin.gif:
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@Soji: Well, I'm half a continent from home, and most of my friends here at school are too. We're looking for a local solution, and thought, perhaps, someone here might have some ideas.. If we can figure something out, it might help the MC community at large.
@Memexus: Yeah, that's the basics of our issue. Hamachi used to work for issues like this, but it seems they started charging for the port forwarding tunnel scheme :sad.gif:
Is anyone familiar with VPNs? I understand there might be some solutions there, but I don't know...
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Does your room have the neccisary plugs? If so, you could ust plug it all in, type in the default router IP, and log into the system from your laptop and then port forward.
Well, I normally connect via the dorm's WiFi. I guess I could NOT eat ramen for the next week, and go buy some cat-5 instead, just to test it (and likely fail there too). You gotta remember, no matter HOW I connect to the network, it's not my network. I can't access any router, anywhere in the line. If I purchased a router (well, if someone did anyway...) I would STILL need to access the other routers or whatever is set up to protect the network as a whole.
Outbound connections work just fine. For example, I can play Starcraft 2 just fine over Battle.net, and Wow as well. If, however, I want to host a server, I'm going to need a VPN or proxy of some sort, so I can connect to it, and then people can connect to it's IP:Port and it'll forward the information around to whoever needs it..
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Tried Hamachi already, that exact thread actually :biggrin.gif: . Doesn't work for me. After some searching around, I found out that that method would only work for people that have UPNP, as Hamachi will use it without informing you, and open ports on your router automatically. As I have no UPNP access, this wouldn't work for me. I also tried Tunngle, and we found that none of us could see each other in the lobbies, nor could we connect, regardless of who hosted. Iplop1, do you know of a free proxy/server that we could ssh to? I'm aware of putty, and have seen it mentioned multiple times while searching for a solution to this problem.
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Why don't you just ask someone to host a server for you? I would gladly do it. If this solution doesn't work, you should have you and your friends apply for a private server so you can all play together, that's the next best solution I can think of.
Be aware it CAN be a pain to get working on games where you cannot specify an IP to connect to. This, thankfully does not apply to Minecraft so for that at last, you shouldn't have any issues.
/sigh.. Nope. Just tried leaf, and it's a no go as well. It has specific instructions for how to port forward, that require access to the router as well. I give up. There seems to be no good way to do this, which is, I guess, a good thing. If this were possible, I imagine that trojan's and the like would be 100 times more dangerous! Thanks for the suggestions folks, but It looks like it's impossible, short of coding my own thing, and I despise coding......
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/sigh.. Nope. Just tried leaf, and it's a no go as well. It has specific instructions for how to port forward, that require access to the router as well. I give up. There seems to be no good way to do this, which is, I guess, a good thing. If this were possible, I imagine that trojan's and the like would be 100 times more dangerous! Thanks for the suggestions folks, but It looks like it's impossible, short of coding my own thing, and I despise coding......
You could always apply for permissions from the local admin. I know some of my friends while in Uni did that for VPN reasons and they allowed it. Not sure how it works where you are, but anything is possible right? I guess you won't know until you ask.
Try to be specific, and use small words. :biggrin.gif:
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'Elmer Fudd Blues' Still tragically lethal.
@Memexus: Yeah, that's the basics of our issue. Hamachi used to work for issues like this, but it seems they started charging for the port forwarding tunnel scheme :sad.gif:
Is anyone familiar with VPNs? I understand there might be some solutions there, but I don't know...
'Elmer Fudd Blues' Still tragically lethal.
'Elmer Fudd Blues' Still tragically lethal.
Outbound connections work just fine. For example, I can play Starcraft 2 just fine over Battle.net, and Wow as well. If, however, I want to host a server, I'm going to need a VPN or proxy of some sort, so I can connect to it, and then people can connect to it's IP:Port and it'll forward the information around to whoever needs it..
'Elmer Fudd Blues' Still tragically lethal.
You could also go with the Hamachi route:
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With Hamachi you don't have to worry about port forwarding/proxies.
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It's called LEAF.
You can download it from here: http://www.leafnetworks.net/products.html
Be aware it CAN be a pain to get working on games where you cannot specify an IP to connect to. This, thankfully does not apply to Minecraft so for that at last, you shouldn't have any issues.
~Sol
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You could always apply for permissions from the local admin. I know some of my friends while in Uni did that for VPN reasons and they allowed it. Not sure how it works where you are, but anything is possible right? I guess you won't know until you ask.
~Sol
'Elmer Fudd Blues' Still tragically lethal.