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Hey guys,

I am testing the setup for a LAN game tonight we are doing with friends.
I have my main dekstop, which should be the host of all games, but there is something strange happening.

For testing purposes I use the game counter strike:
- I can host a game on my laptop and my desktop can join that game (LAN)
- But when I host on my desktop, my laptop can't find my server!

So why doesn't this work the other way around? The LAN works, but not when my desktop hosts?

It would be nice if this gets solved before tonight! :O

Thanks
 
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if they can ping, then it's ok. try to disable any other network interface on the desktop, keep only the LAN interface used in your setup. Otherwise, CS can expose the server to other interface.

I don't think it's needed, but you can check IP configuration by running in cmd: ipconfig /all. Make sure both your desktop use the same configuration (only IP addresses should differ). As I said, pinging ok is a good sign that desktop and latpop "see" each other at IP level.

One other thing is to check the port availability. Before you start CS on your desktop, make sure port 27015 is not used (you can verify with cmd command: netstat -an). After you start the server, this port should be LISTENING.
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Both firewalls are disabled, both machines can ping eachother (used ipconfig to get their 192.168.2.x adress, pinged those) and how do i check the ip configuration?
I believe the machines have 192.168.2.2 and 192.168.2.3.

What confuses me is that one machine can see the other and they can play together on a LAN game, but not the other way around (the desktop being host)
 
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if they can ping, then it's ok. try to disable any other network interface on the desktop, keep only the LAN interface used in your setup. Otherwise, CS can expose the server to other interface.

I don't think it's needed, but you can check IP configuration by running in cmd: ipconfig /all. Make sure both your desktop use the same configuration (only IP addresses should differ). As I said, pinging ok is a good sign that desktop and latpop "see" each other at IP level.

One other thing is to check the port availability. Before you start CS on your desktop, make sure port 27015 is not used (you can verify with cmd command: netstat -an). After you start the server, this port should be LISTENING.
 
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http://imageshack.us/a/img16/64/dfdfb.png
I disabled all other things (programs like tungle and hamachi have their own adapter thingys, so disabled those.)

After that it still didn't work, but I think I disabled those hamachi things on the laptop side aswell, and now it works!

No idea what caused this. But on previous LAN we had similar problems.
For example: laptop X, Y and Z could see X, Y, Z and B. But B coud only see Y and Z and vice versa.

Guess I need to uninstall those hamachi things to be certain no problems will occur.

Thanks you sir!!
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2637/efefs.png
 
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Just disabling hamachi interfaces should be enough, no need to uninstall. The problem was caused by the higher priority route of hamachi interface on your laptop. You can also solve the issue by giving lower priority in routing table, but if you are not confident about this, better just use the disable interface solution. Glad I could help! Good luck on your game night!
 
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