NETPLAY ALTERNATE

[MAYON]

hey, um, all the stuff on netplay's really useful, but i'm stil having trouble...so yea....srry. anyways, my prob. is that my friend doens't have the SN and PW needed to access her router setting. and she has windows 98 and doens't know how to check her fire wall either, actually, she doesn't even know if she HAS a firewall, sicne win98 doesn't come with one but her family might have installed one...so if anyone could help and tell me how to check if she has a fire wall, as well as find me another way to open up the ports/open up her cpu to net play without accessing the router....that'd be great...and yea, srry for all the trouble, thx to anyone who responts..

[Cyrus]

Most firewalls would appear in the installed programs list through the control pannel, so just have her check that. As for the router... she should just ask her family for the admin pass and open the port. That explanation that is stickied at the top of the Netplay section pretty much explains it all as you've seen. There isn't any way to get around it without the pass as far as I know... unless you connect the modem directly to the computer.

[Joe Camacho]

If she can't access the port in the router, she'll have to connect the computer directly to the modem. But if she can't *see* if she has a firewall or not on her own, I don't recomend her to move cables and stuff.

Tell her to see in add/remove programs in control panel if there is something that looks like a firewall.

[AntoineWG]

She can always be the client in a TCP netplay session. This assumes that you know how to open up your router to forward ports.

[rlbond]

hey, um, all the stuff on netplay's really useful, but i'm stil having trouble...so yea....srry. anyways, my prob. is that my friend doens't have the SN and PW needed to access her router setting. and she has windows 98 and doens't know how to check her fire wall either, actually, she doesn't even know if she HAS a firewall, sicne win98 doesn't come with one but her family might have installed one...so if anyone could help and tell me how to check if she has a fire wall, as well as find me another way to open up the ports/open up her cpu to net play without accessing the router....that'd be great...and yea, srry for all the trouble, thx to anyone who responts..

Routers have built in firewalls, too, so without port forwarding she has to be the client, as Antoine said. Although most new routers don't need port forwarding for outbound traffic.

If you have a software firewall, it *should* have a system tray icon. look through those.