I have the same problem. me and my friend are in the same house but when i try and connect it says operation timed out or it just stays on the connecting to server thing forever
Can someone who's a genius about LAN connection stuff help us out on this? I've been waiting a long time for Minecraft 1.3 because of the LAN feature and it's a bummer that it's not working. I want to find a solution ASAP.
This happens to me too. My brother opens his world to LAN, and I can't connect and when I put in the iP in direct connect, it says "Connection Timed Out, Failed to connect to the server" and if he tries to connect to my LAN world the same thing happens. I need help.
UPDATE: My friend just tried to connect to a random public server, and it worked. So, we know that this is exclusive to when he tries to connect to my LAN world.
I had the same problem but fixed it, i can join my PC on LAN but my PC cant join my laptop, Go to your firewall security, then go Firewall Properties, then it should show you domain, private and public profiles, go to your public profile and click where it says "Protected Network Areas": [Customize]" click customize and uncheck all settings you see, then there you go. Both computers should have these settings to join each other.
"P.S. I did this on Windows 7, for anything less than Windows 7, just turn off firewall for public profile, Im not sure about mac but it should be something very similar, Good Luck."
I had the same problem but fixed it, i can join my PC on LAN but my PC cant join my laptop, Go to your firewall security, then go Firewall Properties, then it should show you domain, private and public profiles, go to your public profile and click where it says "Protected Network Areas": [Customize]" click customize and uncheck all settings you see, then there you go. Both computers should have these settings to join each other.
"P.S. I did this on Windows 7, for anything less than Windows 7, just turn off firewall for public profile, Im not sure about mac but it should be something very similar, Good Luck."
I just opened firewall advanced settings in System Preferences, and firewall blocked Minecraft. I made firewall allow Minecraft and now it works! Thank you so much!! Now I can finally have friends join my LAN!
So what's weird is I can connect to my sister's LAN worlds , but she can't connect to mine . Please help ! It says " Connection timed out: connect " When she tries to connect to mine . PLEASE HELP ME !!!
Also I'm on a Mac, if that helps.
Yes.
How do I do that?
I'm not sure what the impact to a Mac of changing the hostname to IP address mapping, but it's one thing you could try.
"P.S. I did this on Windows 7, for anything less than Windows 7, just turn off firewall for public profile, Im not sure about mac but it should be something very similar, Good Luck."
I just opened firewall advanced settings in System Preferences, and firewall blocked Minecraft. I made firewall allow Minecraft and now it works! Thank you so much!! Now I can finally have friends join my LAN!