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Well, it turned out to be a red herring. If I login with player/player I can see the mangos realms, so that is all ok. However the [email protected] does not work - because it searches for it as an email and not a username. Still, now I have at least a well-blocked updater If I find my authenticator I'll let you know what happens if I type in my live details - I'm guessing that there's still some kind of check with a blizzard service, because of the authenticator code request, but so long as I keep my logins as straight usernames and not emails it should be fine. Thank you all very much

Lol - to clarify, I *did* do it in the mangos.exe console, once it had finished booting. I'll go through the values again though, I don't remember typing the password twice in the console window. Thanks for the guide on disabling the auto patch and launcher, I'll give that a go until things are stable and I understand better what I'm doing I expect that modifications can get pretty confusing if it's also being occasionally patched by another source!

The realmlist file is not changed back. Also in the WTF folder is a config file which has been automatically updated with the new IPs, I assume this is done by the client (I did not edit that file myself, only looked)

Good day, I have installed mangos from instructions on the wiki here, I am able to get mangosd and realmd running without errors. I created a new user in mysql and changed the addresses in realmlist.wtf to my internal IP but when I have mangosd and realmd running and try to log in it says my login details are wrong; also when I type my real account (live) details in it asks for my authenticator key, which I only expect when connecting to the live servers. I have not yet made any changes to my install, my only edits to the database are those given in the install instructions. Does anyone know why my change of realmlist.wtf has no effect? I have tried via Wow.exe and via the launcher.exe but they both do the same. My realmlist.wtf currently says set realmlist 192.168.1.2 set patchlist 192.168.1.2 with the last 2 lines I removed in case. Sorry if this is asked before but I tried searching for 'realmlist.wtf' and this comes up with '000s results lol. I also have errors when running the vmaps converter but I see this is optional so not important.