Okay, so I'm on a friend's network and I'm on a laptop that runs Windows 8. We've tried everything, googled to high heaven but no answers come about to help us connect to an opened-to-LAN world.
We've set static IPs, we've tried port forwarding, we've tried setting the network sharing settings to private, but we've yet to be able to connect to either computer's hosted LAN worlds. They neither appear in the searched servers, nor do they connect via direct connect, with or without static IP on one or both machines. This includes looking through the command prompt which is not as wonderful a fix as many Youtubers seem to think!
What gives? What haven't we tried? It's probably obvious but I'm fresh out of ideas.
Hey whats up!
took me a long time to look through all the crap info people dish out, but I figured out how to solve it!
i'll run you through step by step
1. Press Start button and select Control Panel
2. In the search bar search "firewall" and select Windows Firewall
3. Open Advanced settings
4. A new window appears with all these rules and
5. On the left is a panel with Inbound, Outbound and Connection Security, select Inbound Rules
6. Look for the 4 (or more) that begin with "JavaTM Platform SE Binary" they should have a that "not allowed circle next to the rule"
7. On all of these, right click and select "Properties"
8. Another new window will appear and in Action box (closest to the bottom) are three choices of connection.. Select "Allow the connection"
9. Do that for all the rules
After you have done them all the world should pop up in multiplayer when the other opens to labn... it did for mine and i was stoked after a year of no LAN
Okay, instead of making a whole new topic, I'll bump this.
Mineoclock, that would work but they're all already checked. So there's no change there that will cure this problem.
Nothing's changed since last time, I've tried all manners of things and no amount of google-fu produces anything where there is a conclusion, all the threads and topics anyplace I've found are inconclusive.
The only change I can think of is after going into the network's properties, I've turned on the Allow connections etc. in the Sharing tab.
What is this problem? So many 'solutions' and none work. I can go on LAN at my home, where my desktop runs W7. Is this problem perhaps a W8 thing?
We've set static IPs, we've tried port forwarding, we've tried setting the network sharing settings to private, but we've yet to be able to connect to either computer's hosted LAN worlds. They neither appear in the searched servers, nor do they connect via direct connect, with or without static IP on one or both machines. This includes looking through the command prompt which is not as wonderful a fix as many Youtubers seem to think!
What gives? What haven't we tried? It's probably obvious but I'm fresh out of ideas.
Any help whatsoever is appreciated!
took me a long time to look through all the crap info people dish out, but I figured out how to solve it!
i'll run you through step by step
1. Press Start button and select Control Panel
2. In the search bar search "firewall" and select Windows Firewall
3. Open Advanced settings
4. A new window appears with all these rules and
5. On the left is a panel with Inbound, Outbound and Connection Security, select Inbound Rules
6. Look for the 4 (or more) that begin with "JavaTM Platform SE Binary" they should have a that "not allowed circle next to the rule"
7. On all of these, right click and select "Properties"
8. Another new window will appear and in Action box (closest to the bottom) are three choices of connection.. Select "Allow the connection"
9. Do that for all the rules
After you have done them all the world should pop up in multiplayer when the other opens to labn... it did for mine and i was stoked after a year of no LAN
Hope this works for you
Mineoclock, that would work but they're all already checked. So there's no change there that will cure this problem.
Nothing's changed since last time, I've tried all manners of things and no amount of google-fu produces anything where there is a conclusion, all the threads and topics anyplace I've found are inconclusive.
The only change I can think of is after going into the network's properties, I've turned on the Allow connections etc. in the Sharing tab.
What is this problem? So many 'solutions' and none work. I can go on LAN at my home, where my desktop runs W7. Is this problem perhaps a W8 thing?