alchemink

Building ServerZero on Windows 7 machine. Hey! New to all this and want to start off by saying thanks to those who put together all the guides! I had hangups here and there (mostly from this being my first time doing anything like this), but I was able to get through them. And my apologies in advance if I missed something obvious or missed a step in the guide... So here's my problem: I got through the guide, got everything built. realmd.exe and mangosd.exe both run fine. I was able to create accounts no problem. Launching game from the host computer allows me to log in, choose a realm, create characters, and play the game. All good! However, whenever I try to connect over my LAN, it gets stuck on the realm select. Login is fine - goes right through. It sees the realm, shows the correct character count (from characters made earlier in testing from host computer), but will NOT join the realm. Loops back to realm select. I have tried everything I could find on these forums. I made sure the realmd.realmlist has my external IP (goal is external) in 'address', and my host computer's internal IP in 'localAddress'. I know it doesn't matter for LAN, but I also made sure my router is forwarding ports 3724 and 8085 to the host computer's IP. What I have tried: Windows Firewall is disabled UAC is disabled ran the server exe files as Administrator changed realmd.realmlist 'address' to Internal IP for testing on LAN (still loops); that is now changed back to External IP as instructed Disabled router firewall (for testing; didn't fix, re-enabled) Changed realmd.realmlist 'localAddress' to 127.0.0.1 I'm at a bit of a loss here. Not sure what else to check. Is there a permissions thing? Something in the .conf files I need to change? Could there be something in my router getting in the way? TPLink Archer C7 v.4.0, if it matters. Thanks for any help or ideas people can offer! Attached image of my realmd.realmlist table. External IP covered for security, of course.