I have set up my 2 PC's to try and make use of WideFS. It goes something like this:- I have followed directions in the readme to the finest detail and looking at the logs on both server and client machines they are talking, but when I start SB and type my name and it asks for an IP or name (where I would normally type 127.0.0.1), it cannot find the session (multiplayer) that I have set up on server PC. So therefore I don't get any other a/c or weather or anything for that matter!!Can someone lease help as I am getting close to breaking point with it all!Many thanks in advance,Graham

Hi Graham Try to not type anything in the IP dialog. It works flawless for me. Also, do you actually see that the client and server are connected?Hope it helps

Hi Mats,Thanks for that, I have tried that as well, and yes they are connected:)Graham

Sounds like you have software firewalls running, not letting you connect to the game. Have you tried the DirectPlay test in DxDiag? I once had problems like you had and it turned out I had to reinstall DirectX on one or both machines. Don't really remember now.Hope it helps

Hi Again Matts,Ok, have checked Direct Play (TCP/IP) on boths machines thru dxdiag and I am communicating fine between both. Both are DirectX 8.1aI tried again using the IP setting I used for the DX test and still no luck!I am starting to think there's no solution!!Thanks again,Graham

Hi Graham,I have just upgraded my OS to Win2k from Win98SE and had similar problems although Win98SE setup worked OK.In one of your threads you say you tried the IP address you used for the DX test but don't say what that address was so the following suggestion you may have tried.I had to enter the IP address of the PC running FS which is usually for the form 192.168.0.xIf that fails I would go over the settings in the wideserver.ini and wideclient.ini files again, just to make sure. However if the logs indicate that widefs is talking to both PCs I can't see the .ini files being wrong.And check any firewalls are set correctly or, better still, disable the firewall to just see if widefs works without it.Best of luck.

Many thanks for all your help but I have managed to fix the problem.I upgraded to DX9.0a and it works perfectly. I don't need to enter any addresses it just finds it:)Thanks again,Graham