Can anyone help me troubleshoot a home network?

[jasonstory44]

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Let me start by saying I really have no experience with LAN and very little with multiplayer.

 

This week I set up a second computer and installed DCS on it. I connected it to my primary DCS computer through a router and Ethernet connections. I created a homegroup in Windows 10 and both computers seem to see each other just fine.

 

The purpose of this second new computer was to run it as a server and fly using the other computer to take a little workload off my primary DCS rig.

 

On Last Wednesday for my first test run I was able to alter a free flight mission and everything seemed to work as planned.

 

Getting back at it today I can't seem to get the computers to connect no matter what I do. Every time I try and join through IP address and password it tries and then says can't connect and disconnects.

Is this a firewall issue? Any other pointers on how to try and trouble shoot this. Both computers have separate DCS accounts and separately purchased modules and terrains.

 

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jason

[Nate--IRL--]

Can you ping the other computer?

 

If so - then try disabling the windows firewall temporarily on both and try DCS again.

 

Nate

[jasonstory44]

Damn I'm such a noob. I will have to google how to do that. But if you mean ping on the multiplayer server screen I don't see it.

I've tried reading the DCS manual on multiplayer but found it far from helpful

[Paganus]

No way to really trouble shoot something with no information about it, but based on everything you said, have you tried re-booting everything?

[jasonstory44]

I've tried rebooting. Tried turning off firewalls on both computers.

 

When you setup the server computer. It configured the IP address automatically correct? And I can't seem to change it so I hope so

[jasonstory44]

must have been a firewall thing...disabling everything worked...now to try and firgure out how to let it work without taking down the entire firewall everytime

thanks guys

[amazingme]

Add an Outgoing rule for DCS.exe with Allow policy on port 10308, on TCP and UDP, for each network Public, Domain and Home. You can quickly find on google how to do it in a few clicks.

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Edited June 11, 2017 by amazingme
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