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Serious Sam: The First Encounter "Unable to see LAN games"

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  • 17-10-2010 8:30pm
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    VenomIreland
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    This is the original first encounter, not the HD release.

    anyway, no matter what I do, I can't get my brother to see a game I am hosting over LAN. My PC is in a DMZ while his laptop is not, because I can't find out what ports to forward. Any help?


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    PogMoThoin
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    You don't need dmz over lan, a firewall only blocks incoming from the internet therefore there's no ports to forward. Take it out of the dmz and see how You get on, give each pc a static ip in the same subnet as the router and make sure they can ping each other


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    VenomIreland
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    Static IP! I forgot to give the laptop one! Thanks man, will try it later :)


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    VenomIreland
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭VenomIreland


    Right, days later I found out the problem, the laptop wasn't connecting to the network properly (not identifying it as "Home" but as Public), a quick switch and add to the homegroup and it all works!


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