I tried the rex server many moons ago, and had the same problem - my machine was behind a nat/router. I was able to authenticate using an avatar account at realxtend.org, but could not authenticate on my own server.
you may wish to try modrex, where this problem of having an external ip has been solved. It sounds like your port forwarding must already work if you have a working opensim installation. See the instructions at: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/ModRex -p Robert Klein wrote: > Yes I tried using Rexxviewer and SL viewer but they error at the same point. > I turned off the windows firewall too. I am trying to login from another > machine as an avatar I created from the server console. I am using IP > address. The server actually shows the avatar is trying to login but the > viewer chokes on the handshake. I don't have these issues with OpenSim on > Ubuntu so I am not sure how to debug them. I am thinking there is an error > in the readme file on how to setup the files for remote connection. > > -Robert > > > JaniP wrote: > >> Are you using rexviewer? did you use testu...@yourip as a login and "test" >> as a password? Use ip numbers in the configuration files, that helps >> sometimes. >> Try to create an avatar account at realxtend.org and use that account to >> login your server. >> >> I also posted your question to realxtend mailing list ( >> groups.google.com/group/realxtend) >> >> Jani >> >> >> > > -- Dr. Paul A. Fishwick E-Mail: [email protected] Dept. of Computer & Info Phone & FAX: (352) 392-1414 Science and Engineering WWW: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick University of Florida (PGP Key available at above WWW address) P. O. Box 116120 332 Bldg. CSE, Gainesville, FL 32611-6120 _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
