For some reason my friend is unable to connect to my LAN world. We tried every version from 1.7 to 1.8.7. We tried both modified and vanilla Minecraft, but we can't get LAN to work no matter what we do. I thought it was something with my firewall, but I don't think it has anything to do with my problem. If anyone can help me out, that would be great!
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My friend and I are connected to the same router. The 3 first numbers on our iPv4 addresses are the same.
I can connect to his LAN world, but he can't connect to mine.
My LAN world is visible to him, but whenever he tried to log in he gets stuck on "connection to server". Then after a while it says "java exception error".
I am using McAfees custom firewall.
We are using different accounts of Minecraft, both premium.
For some reason my friend is unable to connect to my LAN world. We tried every version from 1.7 to 1.8.7. We tried both modified and vanilla Minecraft, but we can't get LAN to work no matter what we do. I thought it was something with my firewall, but I don't think it has anything to do with my problem. If anyone can help me out, that would be great!
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My friend and I are connected to the same router. The 3 first numbers on our iPv4 addresses are the same.
I can connect to his LAN world, but he can't connect to mine.
My LAN world is visible to him, but whenever he tried to log in he gets stuck on "connection to server". Then after a while it says "java exception error".
I am using McAfees custom firewall.
We are using different accounts of Minecraft, both premium.
We are playing on the same version.
This was because of a DDoS on Mojang. Now you will be able to play.
This was because of a DDoS on Mojang. Now you will be able to play.
I don't think it has anything to do with the DDoS attack. You see, this has been going on for several days. Also, I was and still am able to join his LAN worlds, he just isn't able to join mine. Thanks for the help though :). No one else seems to have any possible answers. ;(
Because you can connect to them that helps to eliminate some problems.
The most likely thing then is that your firewall is blocking the incoming connection.
One way that this can happen is caused by the kind of network you tell your computer that you are connected to.
Windows has 3 types, I think the names changed in different versions of windows, but win7 calls them Public, Home, Work.
Choosing Public may result in MC being blocked by the increased security that being on an untrusted network requires.
That could be the problem, but I don't know how to change this setting as I am not using the standard Windows 8 firewall. My PC is protected by McAfee's custom firewall, and I have no idea how it works. But I don't think that is the cause of my problem. I've had that firewall for quite a while, and my LAN worked while I've had the McAfee firewall. This problem occured about two weeks ago.
I didn't change any setting on my firewall or any other program, it just stopped working. Thanks for your help though!
Things change on your computer all the time. Your McAfee AV and firewall auto updates. WIndows updates, and MC also can download updates each time you launch it.
Let's say that you once whitelisted Java for LAN to work, then Java updates from 1.8_25 to 1.8_41 It's not the same program anymore, the path to it can change as well, now your old whitelist rule no longer applies and it suddenly stops working 'all by itself'.
Auto updating software is great. Until stuff goes wrong and you have no idea what changed between yesterday and today.
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For some reason my friend is unable to connect to my LAN world. We tried every version from 1.7 to 1.8.7. We tried both modified and vanilla Minecraft, but we can't get LAN to work no matter what we do. I thought it was something with my firewall, but I don't think it has anything to do with my problem. If anyone can help me out, that would be great!
Information you may need:
My friend and I are connected to the same router. The 3 first numbers on our iPv4 addresses are the same.
I can connect to his LAN world, but he can't connect to mine.
My LAN world is visible to him, but whenever he tried to log in he gets stuck on "connection to server". Then after a while it says "java exception error".
I am using McAfees custom firewall.
We are using different accounts of Minecraft, both premium.
We are playing on the same version.
This was because of a DDoS on Mojang. Now you will be able to play.
Before you even THINK about asking for crash help: Guide to fixing and avoiding crashes
I don't think it has anything to do with the DDoS attack. You see, this has been going on for several days. Also, I was and still am able to join his LAN worlds, he just isn't able to join mine. Thanks for the help though :). No one else seems to have any possible answers. ;(
Because you can connect to them that helps to eliminate some problems.
The most likely thing then is that your firewall is blocking the incoming connection.
One way that this can happen is caused by the kind of network you tell your computer that you are connected to.
Windows has 3 types, I think the names changed in different versions of windows, but win7 calls them Public, Home, Work.
Choosing Public may result in MC being blocked by the increased security that being on an untrusted network requires.
That could be the problem, but I don't know how to change this setting as I am not using the standard Windows 8 firewall. My PC is protected by McAfee's custom firewall, and I have no idea how it works. But I don't think that is the cause of my problem. I've had that firewall for quite a while, and my LAN worked while I've had the McAfee firewall. This problem occured about two weeks ago.
I didn't change any setting on my firewall or any other program, it just stopped working. Thanks for your help though!
Things change on your computer all the time. Your McAfee AV and firewall auto updates. WIndows updates, and MC also can download updates each time you launch it.
Let's say that you once whitelisted Java for LAN to work, then Java updates from 1.8_25 to 1.8_41 It's not the same program anymore, the path to it can change as well, now your old whitelist rule no longer applies and it suddenly stops working 'all by itself'.
Auto updating software is great. Until stuff goes wrong and you have no idea what changed between yesterday and today.