Simple!
WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO
1.Open to lan(let's say it gives you 0.0.0.0:49836)
2.http://www.whatsmyip.net/ click here this is your IP.That is all you have to do.
WHAT THE OTHER ONES HAVE TO DO
1.Open Minecraft
2.Click multiplayer
3.Click dirrect connect
4.Your sister(or whatever) should replace 0.0.0.0 with the numbers you found here http://www.whatsmyip.net/
5.Then enter the number 49836(the last number that is not a 0 )
IF THIS DOES NOT WORK,YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR A FIX
That's not helpful. Whatismyip will report your public IP, which almost certainly not work from inside your internet router.
If open to lan does not work for you, something is blocking either the advertisments (so the world can't be seen on the other computer), or the connections (when the connection is refused or times out).
This could be software on either computer, or a configuration in your lan router.
1) You either have an unusual router that supports U-turning of NAT'd traffic
OR
2) You aren't using NAT. Very unusual in my part of the world.
AND
3) Your problem was the advertisements being blocked.
Apparently the issue continues with 1.4.7. I just started using the LAN feature as I had someone with another account over. It was working fine two nights ago, tried it with a few of my saved worlds and a new one, working great.
Last night nothing, the other person could not find me, open to LAN showed 0.0.0.0 for IP.
Had to do the direct connect method with my IPv4 and the port number.
I used the method referenced in this post:
Everything is working properly for you, except for one single thing. Your guest did not receive the LAN game advertisement.
Since "it was working fine two nights ago", the problem is with some security setting on your guest's computer which blocked the advertisement.
When you connect to a new network and you specify it as anything other than "Home", you'll get some kind of blocking happening by the Windows firewall.
Possible solutions:
1. Wait, maybe it gets fixed in 1.5
2. Use Hamachi, but you need to go to adapters in the config screen of the com, and right click Hamachi. Then go to properties, then go to Internet Protocol version 4, click properties, click advanced, then change the interface metric to 1.
Don't understand? Look up a video.
3. Downgrade, there are videos on YouTube with the link
This is written in transcendent form, so start with 1 and go trough the list to 3
1) You either have an unusual router that supports U-turning of NAT'd traffic
OR
2) You aren't using NAT. Very unusual in my part of the world.
AND
3) Your problem was the advertisements being blocked.
lol, the first wifi router i had, was a linksys, and it must have had the uturning thing, as i was able to use my public ip, of course, ive scince then gotten a new dsl modem that has built in wifi routing, so i no longer have this, also i will say this, the 0.0.0.0 thing, still exists in 1.5.2, so mojang still fails at fixing it :/
Pre 1.4.4 MC would pick an address on your computer, bind to it and advertise it to potential LAN clients.
Problem was that MC sometimes used an address that was not reachable by LAN clients (2nd network interface, VPN interface, VM interface).
In 1.4.4 MC doesn't pick any address but listens on all interfaces (which is what 0.0.0.0 means in a socket binding context). This is a good thing BUT now no address is being advertised to the LAN clients, so they don't know where the server is.
THIS. That's why 0.0.0.0 is being advertised, it's like a wilcard for all the network interfaces. It's NOT broken, so don't be so dumb people and stop blaming, FOLLOW the steps:
1) Let's say MC advertises "Hosted in 0.0.0.0:59002", that means "connect to port 59002 through WHATEVER network interface you choose".
2) Go to the Control Panel, in the "View your active networks" section click in the link at "Connections", the "Local Area Connection Status" window will open.
3) Click on "Details", search "IPv4 IP Address" in the list. For example, let's say it is "192.168.0.100".
4) In the computer from wich you are trying to connect to the server, inside the game, you just have to write the number found out in the previous step (in this example: 192.168.0.100) PLUS the port number advertised when the server was opened to LAN (in this example: 59002).
So, the server address will be: 192.168.0.100:59002
Yes, but you've quoted me from long ago. The server binds to 0.0.0.0 and advertises out, but NOW the client is smart enough to use the source IP address of the advertisement as the server IP.
You only need to go looking for an IP address manually when the advertisements are being blocked by network security software at either the server or client PC.
WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO
1.Open to lan(let's say it gives you 0.0.0.0:49836)
2.http://www.whatsmyip.net/ click here this is your IP.That is all you have to do.
WHAT THE OTHER ONES HAVE TO DO
1.Open Minecraft
2.Click multiplayer
3.Click dirrect connect
4.Your sister(or whatever) should replace 0.0.0.0 with the numbers you found here http://www.whatsmyip.net/
5.Then enter the number 49836(the last number that is not a 0 )
IF THIS DOES NOT WORK,YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR A FIX
If open to lan does not work for you, something is blocking either the advertisments (so the world can't be seen on the other computer), or the connections (when the connection is refused or times out).
This could be software on either computer, or a configuration in your lan router.
1) You either have an unusual router that supports U-turning of NAT'd traffic
OR
2) You aren't using NAT. Very unusual in my part of the world.
AND
3) Your problem was the advertisements being blocked.
Last night nothing, the other person could not find me, open to LAN showed 0.0.0.0 for IP.
Had to do the direct connect method with my IPv4 and the port number.
I used the method referenced in this post:
Everything is working properly for you, except for one single thing. Your guest did not receive the LAN game advertisement.
Since "it was working fine two nights ago", the problem is with some security setting on your guest's computer which blocked the advertisement.
When you connect to a new network and you specify it as anything other than "Home", you'll get some kind of blocking happening by the Windows firewall.
1. Wait, maybe it gets fixed in 1.5
2. Use Hamachi, but you need to go to adapters in the config screen of the com, and right click Hamachi. Then go to properties, then go to Internet Protocol version 4, click properties, click advanced, then change the interface metric to 1.
Don't understand? Look up a video.
3. Downgrade, there are videos on YouTube with the link
This is written in transcendent form, so start with 1 and go trough the list to 3
Any problems? Message me.
-TheRDBat5
lol, the first wifi router i had, was a linksys, and it must have had the uturning thing, as i was able to use my public ip, of course, ive scince then gotten a new dsl modem that has built in wifi routing, so i no longer have this, also i will say this, the 0.0.0.0 thing, still exists in 1.5.2, so mojang still fails at fixing it :/
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THIS. That's why 0.0.0.0 is being advertised, it's like a wilcard for all the network interfaces. It's NOT broken, so don't be so dumb people and stop blaming, FOLLOW the steps:
1) Let's say MC advertises "Hosted in 0.0.0.0:59002", that means "connect to port 59002 through WHATEVER network interface you choose".
2) Go to the Control Panel, in the "View your active networks" section click in the link at "Connections", the "Local Area Connection Status" window will open.
3) Click on "Details", search "IPv4 IP Address" in the list. For example, let's say it is "192.168.0.100".
4) In the computer from wich you are trying to connect to the server, inside the game, you just have to write the number found out in the previous step (in this example: 192.168.0.100) PLUS the port number advertised when the server was opened to LAN (in this example: 59002).
So, the server address will be: 192.168.0.100:59002
I will repeat it one more time, it is NOT broken.
You only need to go looking for an IP address manually when the advertisements are being blocked by network security software at either the server or client PC.