Deprecated Darkstar fourms

Tried everything i can think of so thought I would ask here.

My friends can't connect to my game server at all. They get to downloading data after character creation but never connect to the server.

I have:
opened all relevant ports on my router
set the server pc in the DMZ
disabled all firewall software
refreshed my public IP address and assigned a DDNS
run everything as an admin
reset the characters using navicat in the database
reset the zone_ip entry to match my DDNS and public IP both with no luck

the game server gives me the error "cannot recieve packet or key is invalid" but it's only given me the error on one login attempt

can't figure this out, maybe i need to rebuild the entire thing?

oh and it also gave me an error "dspdb char_titles table does not exist" once but i can log in and play fine on my LAN pcs

any help or ideas would be appreciated

game server displays no message on login: ip or routing is wrong
game server displays "cannot receive packet/key invalid": ip/routing is right, leave the settings on that and just keep trying

for char_titles, go run char_titles.sql (you probably missed it by accident)

There is no table named char_titles in the current trunk. The field for a players unlocked titles is in a blob in chars.sql, and the IDs are in a global lua.

Lobby references it here tho https://github.com/DarkstarProject/dark ... n.cpp#L106 dunno what thats about..

Has it been a long while since you updated your server?

I just built this server on the weekend using whatever the available files were. First time doing this so i may have screwed something up.

Still getting the cannot receive packet/key is invalid error maybe i have done something wrong?
Going to keep trying and hopefully people will be able to connect

ok just had my brother connect no problem now it's giving his ip the same error

Necro fix for necro post....

Had some longtime away users run into this problem today...
Ended up being and easy fix where you just have to log in with a second character (mule) and then log back in with you main.

Has worked 3 of 3 users so far.